Commonwealth v. Giovanetti

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Maxey,

This is an appeal from the judgment and sentence of death on a conviction of murder in the first degree. The appellant (now married to Eoeco G-iovanetti) was the wife of Pietro Pirolli, who died April 21, 1935, aged 53 years. The attending physician certified the cause of death to be chronic myocarditis. Pirolli’s body was exhumed in 1939 and the autopsy performed on it revealed that the cause of death was arsenical poisoning; the vital organs were found to contain “enormous amounts of arsenic.”

The judgment and sentence now appealed from followed defendant’s…