Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Sweeney
Philadelphia County Court of Oyer and Terminer
Decided September 15, 1924No. 66Published
1Opinion of the Court
McDevitt, J.,
The defendant, Sweeney, was one of five charged with the murder of John C. Emgable. His four companions were convicted of murder of the first degree. One has been electrocuted. Two have been sentenced to death. The fourth is awaiting sentence.
Sweeney was convicted of murder of the second degree. He was sentenced to serve a term of not less than eighteen and not more than twenty years in solitary confinement at hard labor in the Eastern State Penitentiary.
He has appealed from this sentence on the ground that it violates the provisions of an Act approved June 29, 1923, P. L. 975,…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Ogden v. SaundersSupreme Court of the United States · 1827
- Ayars v. WestfieldSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1889
- Seabolt v. Commissioners of Northumberland CountySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1898
- Commonwealth v. KalckSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1913
- Blake v. WilsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1920
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