Gross v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

Affirming.

William Gross, upon Ms trial under an indictment. charging him with willful murder, was convicted of the crime of manslaughter and sentenced to a term of three years in the penitentiary. He seeks a reversal of the judgment on four grounds: (1) He was not arraigned; (2) the instructions are erroneous; (3) competent evidence offered by him was erroneously rejected; and (4) the court erronously refused to require the Commonwealth to make two arguments to the jury.

Appellant shot and killed Eugene Vaughn, a young man 22 years of age, about 11 o’clock on…