Commonwealth v. Lettrich

Opinion by

Me. Justice Linn,

The jury found appellant guilty of murder of the first degree and fixed the penalty at life imprisonment.

The only question meriting discussion is raised by assignments of error asserting that, apart from the confession, there was not sufficient evidence to go to the jury to establish the corpus delicti.

The appellant was indicted for the murder of an eight-day-old child. It was born in the early morning of November 1,1941, in the Allegheny Yalley Hospital. The mother and child were discharged from the hospital on Saturday evening, November 8th, at about nine o’clock…