Commonwealth v. Mussoline

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Roberts,

Appellant, Anthony Mussoline, was tided before a judge and jury and convicted of malicious mischief in connection with the dynamiting of a scrap yard owned by one Salvatore Gaudiano. Relying entirely on circumstantial evidence to prove Mussoline’s guilt, the Commonwealth was permitted to establish, inter alia, that three small droplets of blood found 60 feet from the scene of the explosion were of the same type, “A”, as that of appellant. It is uncontradicted that type A is the second most common blood type, appearing in approximately 30% of all human beings.…