Commonwealth v. DePalma
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 294, Jan. T., 1920, by defendant, from judgment of O. & T. Luzerne Co., April T., 1919, No. 45, on verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree in case of Com. v. Tony DePalma, alias Tony Palma. Indictment for murder. Before Strauss, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict of murder of the first degree, upon which judgment of sentence was passed. Defendant appealed.
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Appeal, No. 294, Jan. T., 1920, by defendant, from judgment of O. & T. Luzerne Co., April T., 1919, No. 45, on verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree in case of Com. v. Tony DePalma, alias Tony Palma. Indictment for murder. Before Strauss, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict of murder of the first degree, upon which judgment of sentence was passed. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned were various rulings and instructions get forth in the opinion of the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Frazer,
On January 27, 1919, between 12 and 12:30 a. m., Bronislaw Myskowski was found dead in his bedroom, his throat having been cut with a sharp instrument. Defendant, who lived at a boarding house about six hundred feet distant, was placed under arrest early the *28same morning charged with committing the crime. The evidence produced on the part of the Commonwealth was wholly circumstantial, the motive being based on an intimacy existing between defendant and the wife of deceased. The jury returned a verdict of murder in the first degree and, after refusal of the court…
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