Commonwealth v. Eisenhower
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 84, Jan. T., 1897, by-defendant, from judgment of O. and T. Schuylkill Co., March T., 1896, No. 878, on verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Indictment for murder. Before Savidge, P. J., of the 8th judicial district, specially presiding. At the trial it appeared that on February 17,1896, John H. Schwindt and Patrick Monaghan left the colliery at which they had been working to go to their homes.
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Appeal, No. 84, Jan. T., 1897, by-defendant, from judgment of O. and T. Schuylkill Co., March T., 1896, No. 878, on verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Indictment for murder. Before Savidge, P. J., of the 8th judicial district, specially presiding. At the trial it appeared that on February 17,1896, John H. Schwindt and Patrick Monaghan left the colliery at which they had been working to go to their homes. As they approached the borough of Shenandoah, they were walking leisurely between the tracks of the Lehigh Yalley railroad, Schwindt being on the right hand side of Monaghan.…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam:,
A careful consideration of tbe voluminous record in this case has convinced us that there is no error therein of which the prisoner has any just reason to complain. The trial appears to have been so conducted by the learned president of the eighth judicial district, who specially presided thereat, as to secure for the accused a fair and impartial trial. We find nothing in any of his rulings that would justify us in reversing the judgment of the law pronounced on the verdict; nor is there anything in either of the specifications of error that requires discussion.
It was conclusively…
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