Commonwealth v. Flori

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

Appellant, James Flori, stands convicted of first degree murder, and under sentence of death, for the killing of Pasquale Livoy. The circumstances showing the relations between the two men and of the homicide, so far as necessary to he related here, are these: Flori was engaged in the illicit sale of alcohol and had, so he says in his testimony, sold 200 gallons to the deceased for, $600. The latter did not pay for it when delivered, and appellant, at the expiration of two. or three days, went to the bottling establishment of Livoy and requested him to make…