Commonwealth v. Hough

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

The appellant entered a plea of guilty generally to an indictment charging him with murder. The court below (composed of three judges), after hearing testimony of both sides, found the homicide involved to be murder in the first degree and fixed the penalty at death. The appellant makes no complaint of the degree of guilt so adjudged. In his printed brief on this appeal, it is stated that “There is no contention that the crime was other than that of murder of the first degree, since it was a crime committed in the course of a robbery . . With that conclusion, no…