Lake v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

One Saturday afternoon in July, 1924, between four and five o’clock, the appellant and defendant below, Edward Lake, who was about twenty-nine years of age at the time and married, shot and killed his wife and Mrs. Mary A. Smith. The latter was first mortally wounded by defendant and ran out of her business house, which was a part of her residence, and fell on the street car track, from which place she was afterwards taken to the hospital and later died. Immediately defendant pursued his wife across the street into a grocery, which she had sought…