Commonwealth v. Clemmer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 349, Jan. T., 1898, by-defendant, from judgment of O. and T. Montgomery Co., June T., 1898, No. 79, on verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree. Indictment for murder.
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Appeal, No. 349, Jan. T., 1898, by-defendant, from judgment of O. and T. Montgomery Co., June T., 1898, No. 79, on verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree. Indictment for murder. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court, and by the opinion of Weand, J., on motion in arrest of judgment and for a new trial, which opinion is as follows: After a trial lasting twelve days the defendant was found guilty of murder of the first degree, and now moves in arrest of judgment and for a new trial. As the motion in arrest of judgment is based upon the same reasons which, inter alia, are…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Sterrett,
On an indictment properly charging the defendant, James A. Clemmer, with the murder of Emma P. Kaiser, on the evening of October 28, 1896, he was duly tried, found guilty of murder of the first degree and sentenced to suffer the penalty affixed by the law to that high felony.
The testimony introduced by the commonwealth tended strongly to prove not only that Mrs. Kaiser was brutually murdered at the time and place laid in the indictment, but also that the murder was committed by the defendant and Charles O. Kaiser, Jr., the murdered woman’s husband, in…
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