Commonwealth v. Drum
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
William Drum was charged in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Westmoreland county for the murder of David Mohigan. A true hill having been found by the grand jury of that court, it was certified into the Court of Oyer and Terminer of the same county.
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William Drum was charged in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Westmoreland county for the murder of David Mohigan. A true hill having been found by the grand jury of that court, it was certified into the Court of Oyer and Terminer of the same county. Subsequently the Hon. Joseph Buffington, president of the Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland county, certified to the Supreme Court that he was related to the defendant, and that this would be in the way of his presiding in the court for the trial of the indictment. On the 22d of October 1868, the Supreme Court made the following order:— “…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Agnew
charged the jury as follows:—
Gentlemen: — The solemnity of the form in which the prisoner has been arraigned, and through which you have been set apart to become his triers, is well calculated to impress your minds with the high responsibility of the duty you have taken upon you. It ■should remind you that you are not to be blind to the interests of society in the pity you may feel for his youth; nor to forget the justice due to him in the horror you may feel for the crime. Following the pathway of the evidence, you should turn neither to the right nor the left, except as its light may…
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