Commonwealth v. Strantz

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Maxey,

This is an appeal from the sentence of death imposed upon the defendant, Walter Strantz, after he was convicted of murder in the first degree upon an indictment charging him with the malicious killing of Earl E. Rowe.

At 4 p. m. on April 9, 1937, the appellant, in company with one Joe Yurcavage, bought a box of 38 caliber bullets in Mount Carmel and gave some of them to Yurcavage. Later in the afternoon they went to the home in Shamokin where Yurcavage’s estranged wife was employed, and there at 7 p. m. Yurcavage shot and fatally wounded her. The shooting was…