Commonwealth v. Clark

The defendant, a man of forty-four years, was convicted, in the first degree, of the murder of a girl eighteen years old, named Ethel Zuckerman, who was a clerk in a bakery shop. Her body was found in the shop about ten o’clock in the evening of December 20, 1933, with the face and head bruised, the jaws broken, and six knife wounds in the throat, in one of which the knife remained. There was evidence that the murderer stole $8 out of the money drawer at the time of the murder.

The first assignment of error attacks the action of the judge in permitting the district attorney in his opening to…