Commonwealth v. Detweiler
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 1, May T., 1911, by defendant, from judgment of O. & T. Dauphin Co., Sept. T., 1909, No. 138, on verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree in case of Commonwealth v. Wells W. Detweiler. Indictment for murder. Before Kunkel, P. J. The facts appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 1, May T., 1911, by defendant, from judgment of O. & T. Dauphin Co., Sept. T., 1909, No. 138, on verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree in case of Commonwealth v. Wells W. Detweiler. Indictment for murder. Before Kunkel, P. J. The facts appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court. At the trial Leon G. Landis, a witness for the commonwealth, was asked this question: “Q. State, please, what conversation, if any, you heard pass between the officer and Detweiler at that time, what Detweiler said? A. I heard Detweiler say something about: ‘You ain’t got no business in here, you…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Moschziskeb,
The defendant was convicted of murder of the first degree. The crime occurred at a clubhouse where the defendant and the deceased had been gambling. The defendant went to this house shortly after ten o’clock on the night prior to the morning of the killing, and the gambling commenced at midnight and continued until about seven o’clock in the morning, when the game was broken up by a dispute over the money. The defendant then left the clubhouse and went to a pawn shop where he purchased a thirty-eight caliber revolver and requested the clerk in the shop to…
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