Commonwealth v. DuBoise
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 199, Jan. T., 1921, Tby defendant, from judgment of O. & T. Wyoming Co., April T., 1920, No. 1, on verdict of murder of the first degree, in case of Commonwealth v. Joseph Du-Boise. Indictment for murder. Before Searle, P. J., specially presiding. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict, murder of the first degree, on which-sentence of death was passed. Defendant appealed.
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Appeal, No. 199, Jan. T., 1921, Tby defendant, from judgment of O. & T. Wyoming Co., April T., 1920, No. 1, on verdict of murder of the first degree, in case of Commonwealth v. Joseph Du-Boise. Indictment for murder. Before Searle, P. J., specially presiding. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict, murder of the first degree, on which-sentence of death was passed. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned were various rulings on evidence and instructions, appearing hy the opinion of the Supreme Court, one witness testifying to a threat to kill his wife made by defendant about…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinión by
Mr. Justice Schaffer,
Mary DuBoise, wife of appellant, was killed on the night of October 9,1920, about 11:30 o’clock, while seated alongside a window in her home. At the time of the murder, her nine months’ old baby was lying in a carriage at her feet. Her death was caused by a gunshot wound fired through the window from a gun loaded with number six shot, discharged at such close range that her flesh was burned.
The deceased and her husband, the appellant, had been separated for some time, and, in the pieceding May, she had caused his arrest in nonsupport proceedings, which resulted…
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