Commonwealth v. Williams

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Kephart,

The details of the crime for which Harold E. Williams was convicted of murder and sentenced to death are stated quite fully in the preceeding case against Clara Grace Prophet, and need not be repeated except as they are necessary to an understanding of the present case. Williams, when on the stand in his own defense, testified to the agreement to murder Prophet, in this respect substantiating the confessions introduced against him and Mrs. Prophet. His testimony was as follows: “What I was to do on the first floor was to make this appear as if a burglar had…