Commonwealth v. Ford

Opinion by

Me. Justice Roberts,

Appellant, Albert Ford, indicted for two murders arising out of the same incident, was tried by a jury and found guilty of murder in the first degree on both indictments. The jury determined that the sentence on the murder charges should be life imprisonment.1 Following a denial of motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment appellant filed this appeal. He alleges three trial errors which we shall discuss seriatim.

Appellant first claims that a particular knife and a photograph of that knife were improperly admitted into evidence over his objection. He…