Commonwealth v. Loomis
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 215, Jan. T., 1921, by defendant, from judgment of O. & T. Northampton Co., April T., 1918, No. 76, on verdict of guilty of murder of the second degree, in case of Commonwealth v. Robert M. Loomis. Indictment for mnrder. Before Stewart, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree, on which sentence was passed. Defendant appealed.
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Appeal, No. 215, Jan. T., 1921, by defendant, from judgment of O. & T. Northampton Co., April T., 1918, No. 76, on verdict of guilty of murder of the second degree, in case of Commonwealth v. Robert M. Loomis. Indictment for mnrder. Before Stewart, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree, on which sentence was passed. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned, among others, were (2, 3, 4) rulings and instructions as to the effect to he given to the evidence relating to finger-prints, and (14) admission of Shrope’s testimony given at…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Sadler,
The facts surrounding the killing of Bertha Meyers were narrated in an opinion filed by this court, when a former appeal by the defendant from a conviction of first degree murder was considered (Com. v. Loomis, 267 Pa. 438), and the details need not be repeated. Complaint is now made of alleged errors in the second trial, which terminated in a-verdict of murder of the second degree.
One Shrope had been indicted for the same crime, and became a witness for the State at the first hearing of Loomis in 1918, at which time the former was examined. Subsequently, he…
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