Commonwealth v. Weiss

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Sadler,

One Turner conducted a gasoline station in Mercer County, and, on the night of March 1,1924, was murdered, four bullets having been fired, into his body from the outside, as the jury has found. Shortly thereafter, two young men, the present appellants, boarding in the same house at the time, were charged with the crime, and later convicted of murder of the first degree, It seems that, for sometime prior to the assault on the deceased, the defendants had been watching his place of business with the idea, as appears by their own confessions, of committing a robbery.…