Commonwealth v. Palmer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 186, Jan. T., 1908, by defendant, from judgment of O. & T. Berks Co., Dec. T., 1907, No. 71, on verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree in case of Commonwealth v. Frank Palmer. Indictment for murder. Before Endlich, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree. Defendant appealed. Error assigned was portion of charge quoted in the opinion of the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
The victim of this homicide was a woman with whom the prisoner had lived in illicit relations. He admitted the killing, but attempted to justify it as an act of self-defense. His story on the trial was that they had quarrelled a number of times; that on the evening of the killing they went to a lonely spot in the city of Reading, where they again quarrelled; that she there drew a revolver upon him, which he took from her and threw away; that she then grabbed him and struck him with some object; that before he started with her to the place of the killing, he had put…
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