Commonwealth v. Tassone
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 300, Jan. T., 1914, by defendant, from judgment of O. & T., Lancaster Co., April Sessions, 1914, No. 31, on verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree in case of Commonwealth v. Rocco Tassone. Indictment for murder. Before Landis, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree upon which sentence of death by electrocution was passed. Defendant appealed.
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Appeal, No. 300, Jan. T., 1914, by defendant, from judgment of O. & T., Lancaster Co., April Sessions, 1914, No. 31, on verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree in case of Commonwealth v. Rocco Tassone. Indictment for murder. Before Landis, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree upon which sentence of death by electrocution was passed. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned were in permitting the indictment to be amended after verdict, in refusing to arrest judgment, and the sentence of the court,
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
Tony Collata, an Italian fruit-dealer, while driving along a public highway leading to the City of Lancaster, was murdered on October 31, 1913. A jury found that the appellant had murdered him. On this appeal no question is raised as to thé sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict returned and there is no complaint of any error committed by the learned court below in the course of the trial.
*546In the indictment returned by the grand jury April 20, 1914, the date of the commission of the crime is laid as October 31, 1914. On April 27, 1914, six days after the…
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