Commonwealth v. Shults
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 83, Jan. T., 1908, by defendant, from judgment of O. & T. Phila. Co., June T., 1907, No. 175, on verdict of murder of the first degree in case of Commonwealth v. Francis Marion Shults. Indictment for murder. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. Yerdict of guilty of murder of the first degree, upon which sentence was passed. Error assigned was portion of charge, quoted in the opinion of the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Mitchell,
The only assignments of error that need be noticed are those relating to the evidence of the experts as to insanity, and these are practically all condensed in the exception to that portion of the charge in which the judge said to the jury: “We will now come to the medical testimony. I will say to you on that score that you are not bound to decide this case according to the views of the doctors one way or the other. The doctors are not the jury. They cannot take the stand and say such and such is the case and then decide the case. Although you have been…
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