Commonwealth v. Collins
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 340, Jan. T., 1919, by defendant, from judgment of O. and T. Adams Co., Jan. T., 1919, No. 7, on verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree in case of Commonwealth v. Clarence R. Collins. Indictment for murder. Before McPherson, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree, on which judgment of sentence was passed. Defendant appealed.
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Appeal, No. 340, Jan. T., 1919, by defendant, from judgment of O. and T. Adams Co., Jan. T., 1919, No. 7, on verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree in case of Commonwealth v. Clarence R. Collins. Indictment for murder. Before McPherson, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree, on which judgment of sentence was passed. Defendant appealed. Error assigned, inter alia, was refusing binding instructions for defendant, quoting the record.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Brown,
The murder of which the appellant was convicted in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Adams County was committed in the County of Cumberland, at a point approximately six hundred and forty-four feet from the line dividing the two counties. He was indicted and tried in the former county, under section 48 of the Act of March 31,1860, P. L. 427, which provides: “In order to obviate the difficulty of proof as to all offenses committed near the boundaries of counties, in any indictment for felony or misdemeanor committed on the boundary or boundaries of two or more…
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