Commonwealth v. McManus
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
No. 119 July Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below. No. 110 March Term 1890, O. & T. On March 6, 1890, the grand jury returned as a true bill ail indictment charging John McManus with the murder of Eugene McGinnis, on February 21, 1890; certified. On March 7th, the prisoner, being arraigned, pleaded not guilty. Issue.
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No. 119 July Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below. No. 110 March Term 1890, O. & T. On March 6, 1890, the grand jury returned as a true bill ail indictment charging John McManus with the murder of Eugene McGinnis, on February 21, 1890; certified. On March 7th, the prisoner, being arraigned, pleaded not guilty. Issue. At the trial of the indictment on April 28, 1890, the case presented by the evidence was in substance as follows : On the evening of February 21, 1890, eight or ten men, including Eugene McGinnis, the deceased, met at the house of Cora Campbell, on Stampers street, below Third, in…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Chief Justice Paxson:
The first assignment of error is to the admission of the conduct of the prisoner and the woman Cross an hour before the murder. It was an undisputed fact that the prisoner, the same woman Cross, and the deceased were together when the killing took place, or immediately before, even if the woman did, as she testified, run away before the shot was actually fired. Both the prisoner and the woman, as well as some other witnesses, testified that the quarrel was about the woman, though the exact cause of it is differently related. The theory of the commonwealth was…
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