Commonwealth v. Greason
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 167, Jan. T., 1902, by plaintiff, from judgment of O. & T. Berks Co., Dec. T., 1901, No. 112, on verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree in case of Commonwealth v. Samuel Greason. Indictment for murder. Before Ebmentbout, P. J. At the trial it appeared that the defendant was indicted for the killing of John Edwards, a white man. Defendant was a colored man. Kate Edwards, the wife of John Edwards, was indicted and convicted of the murder.
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Appeal, No. 167, Jan. T., 1902, by plaintiff, from judgment of O. & T. Berks Co., Dec. T., 1901, No. 112, on verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree in case of Commonwealth v. Samuel Greason. Indictment for murder. Before Ebmentbout, P. J. At the trial it appeared that the defendant was indicted for the killing of John Edwards, a white man. Defendant was a colored man. Kate Edwards, the wife of John Edwards, was indicted and convicted of the murder. The evidence for the commonwealth tended to show that the prisoner and Mrs. Edwards were accomplices. When a Mrs. Rollins, the wife of…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
The ruling of the trial judge did not, as argued by appellant’s counsel in support of the first assignment, exclude the admission in evidence of the letters written by Mrs. Edwards to Charles Rollins. The counsel’s argument is based on a misconception of his offer, which was not to put the letters in evidence but to show by the cross-examination of Mrs. Edwards, the wife of John Edwards and a witness for the commonwealth, *67that she bad written Rollins to come and take her away, and also to show that she was writing him frequently for that purpose and consequently, could not have…
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