Commonwealth v. Briscoe

MacDade, J.,

This defendant, Walter Briscoe, being confined in the county jail and charged with murder did, on July 29, 1932, petition this court that he was in destitute circumstances and wholly without funds to employ counsel to represent and to defend him at the trial of his cause, which application in due legal course was granted (Broomall, J.) and E. Leroy Van Roden, Esq., a very capable barrister, was duly appointed, who subsequently ably and with consummate skill defended defendant at the latter’s trial in October and, by his untiring efforts, saved the defendant’s life. The slaying of…