Skillian v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Turner, Commissioner

Reversing.

Appellant on her separate trial was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment under an indictment charging her and Henrietta Wagner with entering into a conspiracy to murder Rosetta Warren, and that as a result of such conspiracy Henrietta Wagner placed dynamite or other high explosive under or near the house where Rosetta Warren was sleeping, and caused the same to explode, whereby she was killed.

The record discloses that Henrietta Wagner had been wildly infatuated with Alf Warren, the husband of decedent, Rosetta Warren, almost since…