Tiffany v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR TO THE COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER OF SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY. No. 379 January Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 1 August Term 1886, O. & T. On August 9, 1886, Judson E. Tiffany on arraignment pleaded not guilty to an indictment, returned a true bill, charging him with the murder of Samuel Hocum on July 15, 1886. The facts appearing on the trial, were in substance that Lafayette Crandall and Samuel Hocum, on the day of the homicide, were in a field belonging to the…
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER OF SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY. No. 379 January Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 1 August Term 1886, O. & T. On August 9, 1886, Judson E. Tiffany on arraignment pleaded not guilty to an indictment, returned a true bill, charging him with the murder of Samuel Hocum on July 15, 1886. The facts appearing on the trial, were in substance that Lafayette Crandall and Samuel Hocum, on the day of the homicide, were in a field belonging to the prisoner and were there engaged iu picking berries, when the prisoner ordered them out of the field. As they were on the way…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Sterrett :
The clear and comprehensive charge of the learned president of the Oyer and Terminer contains a correct exposition of the law applicable to the several degrees of homicide upon which the jury were required to pass, except in his refusal to charge, substantially as requested by the prisoner, that a reasonable doubt as to the existence of malice was sufficient to reduce the grade of homicide below murder of the second degree. His refusal to so instruct the jury, is practically the subject of complaint in the first four specifications of error.
While it was not…
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