Commonwealth v. Baldassarre

399 Pa. 411 (1960)

Commonwealth

v.

Baldassarre, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Argued January 11, 1960.

May 4, 1960.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, BOK and EAGEN, JJ.

Reuben E. Cohen, with him Nathan B. Feinstein, Alvin S. Ackerman, and Cohen, Shapiro and Cohen, for appellant.

Clement J. McGovern, Assistant District Attorney, with him Jacques H. Fox, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BOK, May 4, 1960:

On October 3, 1959, appellant, aged 67, surrendered to the Delaware County police, saying that he had just killed his wife.

A week later he…