Commonwealth v. Valotta

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

From his sentence to death following a verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree, defendant brings this appeal.

As a result of the testimony they heard, the jury* could have found these facts and circumstances: Defendant was employed where there had been a strike in progress for sometime antedating the night of the kill*86ings. He had been at a social gathering and with a companion was proceeding along a public street shortly after 1 o’clock in the morning, when he came upon a group of intoxicated men, one of whom was Thomas Hopkins. As appellant passed them,…