Commonwealth v. Jung Jow

Citations

• 219 Pa. 173
• 68 A. 47
• 1907 Pa. LEXIS 626

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Murder—New trial — Discretion of court.</p> <p>Where three men have been tried together and convicted of murder, it is not an abuse of discretion in the court to grant a new trial for one of the prisoners, and to refuse it for the others; and this is especially so where it appears that the two were arrested on the spot of the killing with the weapons still in their hands, while the other was not taken until thirty or forty minutes afterwards, and then unarmed, at a house several blocks away.</p>