Commonwealth v. Hudson

Citations

• 269 Pa. 176
• 112 A. 434
• 1921 Pa. LEXIS 532

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Murder—Evidence—Confession—Severance.</p> <p>1. Where defendants are tried together, a confession of one of them may be admitted in evidence, though made after the crime was committed, provided the trial judge cautions the jury that it must be given no effect except as against the party making it.</p> <p>2. This rule applies though the other defendants may be incidentally prejudiced; if they did not wish to take this risk they should have asked for a severance.</p> <p>Appeals — Assignments of error — Criminal law — Sentence.</p> <p>3. An assignment alleging error in imposing sentence will be overruled if the record shows the time has arrived for its imposition, and it is in the form prescribed by statute.</p>