Commonwealth v. Brent

Citations

• 233 Pa. 381
• 82 A. 469
• 1912 Pa. LEXIS 837

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Murder—Drunkenness as a defense — Evidence.</p> <p>1. On the trial of an indictment for murder where drunkenness is set up as a defense, and a number of witnesses are produced by the defendant in support of such defense, a verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree will not be reversed where nearly a dozen witnesses for the commonwealth testify that he was not drunk, and the trial judge carefully defines the difference between murder in the first degree and murder in the second degree, and otherwise properly and adequately instructs the jury.</p> <p>Appeals — Assignments of error.</p> <p>2. Assignments of error which are discursive and argumentative, or which fail to give the context of the words assigned for error, are faulty.</p>