Sweda v. State

On a trial, at which Bronislaw Sweda was vigorously defended by counsel and his rights properly safeguarded by the trial judge, a jury nevertheless found him guilty of murder in the first degree for killing Julius Segalbach on January 9, 1930. Three stenographically recorded confessions made voluntarily by Sweda on occasions separated by substantial intervals during a period of ten hours, together with the testimony of Rose Segalbach, the *619widow of the homicide victim, and numerous corroborating circumstances testified to by credible witnesses, .convincingly established Sweda’s guilt beyond…