Commonwealth v. Saunders

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Horace Stern,

Shortly after seven o’clock on the morning of June 2, 1954, John T. Neelans, a 62 year old- attendant at a gasoline station located at Reedsdale Street and Ridge Avenue in the City of Pittsburgh, was struck on the head, shot in the chest, and robbed, by someone who stepped out from the side of the station; he died a few minutes later. The crime thus committed was murder in the first degree, the only question being the identity of the assailant: Thé defendant, Earl Richard Saunders, a lad not quite 16 years of age at the time, of the crime, was charged…