Commonwealth v. Cisneros

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Arnold,

The defendant was indicted, tried before a jury, and found guilty of murder in tbe first degree, the penalty being fixed at life imprisonment. At trial he was represented by able counsel who had wide experience in homicide cases, but who did not argue this appeal.

Defendant had gone to his wife’s home, some distance from his own residence, and when she called her mother on the telephone, lie called into the telephone that by the time the mother got there the daughter would be dead, — which statement he made come true. He quite clearly shot his wife, Dorothy, with a…