Commonwealth v. Guida

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Parker,

Guiseppe Guida was indicted with others for the murder of Winifred Flannery at Lenox Apartments in Philadelphia on May 16, 1935. Guida was convicted of first degree murder with penalty of life imprisonment and sentenced. He has appealed to this court raising a question as to the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict and, more particularly, contending that unintentional death occurring in an attempted perpetration of a robbery is not murder.

Several weeks prior to the killing, this defendant visited John Lagaña and Sam Euggeri, co-defendants in the…