Commonwealth v. Ellsworth

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

Prank Ellsworth was indicted by the grand jury of Philadelphia County for the felony murder of one Lulubel Rossman which had taken place on July 3, 1955. He was tried before a court and jury, convicted of murder of the first degree and sentenced to life imprisonment. We reversed that judgment of sentence and granted a new trial because of error on the part of the trial court in admitting into evidence certain declarations made by one Raymond Wilson, an alleged co-conspirator of Ellsworth, to a third party, in Ells-worth’s absence and against Ellsworth, after the…