Commonwealth v. McLaughlin

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

Defendant, a young man, twenty years of age at the time of the occurrence we are to deal with, appeals from his conviction and sentence for murder of the second degree, contending that the evidence produced against him did not establish this crime.

With two companions he was driving his father’s automobile about half past ten o’clock at night along Northampton Street in Wilkes-Barre Township in the County of Luzerne. His progress, was down grade and was at the rate of twenty or twenty-five miles an hour. The highway was well lighted. Frank Ravitt and his wife…