Commonwealth v. Lockett

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

On December 11, 1926, at about 2:15 a. m., Joseph E. Bell, a police officer in uniform and on duty, was shot and mortally wounded with a .32 caliber revolver in the hands of Frank Edward Lockett, the defendant, from which wound the officer died some days later. For this the defendant was convicted by a jury of murder of the first degree with the penalty of death, and from the judgment pronounced thereon he brought this appeal. An examination of the record fails to disclose any reversible error.

The evidence for the Commonwealth was to the effect that at the time…