Commonwealth v. Coles
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 330, Jan. T., 1919, by Samuel Coles, from judgment of O. & T. Philadelphia Co., March T., 1918, No. 345, on verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree in the case of Commonwealth v. Samuel Coles. Indictment for murder. Before Monaghan, J. Verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree upon which sentence of death was passed. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned were rulings on evidence and refusal of a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Stewart,
The appellant stands convicted of the crime of murder of the first degree under an indictment preferred in the Oyer and Terminer Court of Philadelphia County, charging him, together with his brother, John Coles, and two others, with the felonious killing of George Williams, then a detective officer of the City of Philadelphia, on the 9th day of January, 1918. When the case was called for trial a severance was asked and appellant was accorded a separate trial, resulting in a conviction as above indicated. A new trial was granted in which the result was the same,…
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