Commonwealth v. Sauders

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Bell,

The defendant, Mary E. Sauders, alias Mary E. Sauder, was indicted for the murder of William (Will) Glasgow, and was convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree with the recommendation of life imprisonment. Motions in arrest of judgment and for a new trial were filed by counsel for the defendant. The motion for a new trial was not pressed at the time of argument in the Court below; nevertheless the motion *381in arrest of judgment and the motion for a new trial were dismissed by the lower Court.

The very important question raised in this case is whether the…