Commonwealth v. Epps

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

Appellant was found guilty of murder of the first degree and the punishment meted out to him by the jury was life imprisonment. He challenges his conviction on the ground that the trial judge improperly permitted declarations of two of his alleged accomplices in the crime to be laid before the jury, the declarations having been made by them to police officers, when he was not present, and some days after the homicide.

The two men whose declarations were received had previously been tried for the killing. One was convicted of first degree murder and the other of…