Commonwealth v. Davis

Opinion

per Curiam,

Judgment of sentence affirmed by an evenly divided Court.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice O’Brien

in Support of Affirmance :

Some time in the morning of July 21, 1967, Mrs. Hattie Stirling discovered the dead body of her daughter, nine-year-old Vintress Stirling, in the apartment which Mrs. Sterling and Vintress shared with Mrs. Stirling’s three younger children. The police, summoned by an aunt of the deceased, arrived on the premises at 8:30 a.m., where they found the victim’s body, lying face up on the bed with bruises around her neck and face and with foam around her mouth.

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