Commonwealth v. Lacie

Citations

• 256 Pa. 526
• 100 A. 974
• 1917 Pa. LEXIS 651

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Murder—Instructions.</p> <p>Where in a murder case the jury has been distinctly and properly instructed in a general charge as to what constitutes murder of the first degree, murder of the second degree and voluntary manslaughter and twice told that the duty was upon them of fixing the degree of the prisoner’s guilt, if they should convict'him, and in answer to points these instructions are repeated and nothing is to be found in any portion of the charge from which the jury could have inferred that the law’s presumption was that the prisoner’s guilt was that of first degree, a verdict of guilty of first degree murder was not disturbed.</p>