Commonwealth v. Cantanzariti

Swartz, P. J.,

The prisoner, Guiseppe Cantanzariti, was charged with the murder of Guiseppe lannuce. He plead self-defence at the trial. The jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree.

In this decision we shall call Guiseppe Cantanzariti the accused and refer to lannuce as Joe or the deceased.

On the evening of Sept. 17, 1921, Joe, the deceased, went to a hospital in Norristown with some fruit for a sick friend. He found that his friend had left the hospital. He then carried the fruit to the house where accused boarded, on Franklin Street, in the Borough of Norristown. He met the…