Laros v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Northampton county: Of January Term 1877, No. 86. Indictment of Allen 0-. Laros, for the murder, by poison, of his father, Martin Laros.
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Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Northampton county: Of January Term 1877, No. 86. Indictment of Allen 0-. Laros, for the murder, by poison, of his father, Martin Laros. At the trial before Meyers, P. J., it appeared from the evidence that on the 31st of May 1876, the family of the deceased, consisting of himself, his wife Mary, his children Irvin, Alvin, Clara, Alice, the prisoner Allen, a grandchild Flora, and a man named Moses Schug, who boarded with the family, all sat down to take supper. Shortly thereafter one after another of those at the table, in quick succession, were…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Agnew
On reading these assignments of error the first impression is that some of them must be sustained. But a careful review of the testimony, running in its current and along with the bills of exceptions as they were taken, discloses that they are groundless. The case was carefully tiled, and the rulings fair and substantially correct. In such a case as this slight inaccuracies, doing no substantial hurt to the prisoner, ought not to turn aside the course of justice. The desperate condition of offenders often leads to many shifts to escape. Insanity is a common resort, but the burthen of its…
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