Commonwealth v. McMillan

Citations

• 144 Pa. 610
• 22 A. 1029
• 1891 Pa. LEXIS 644

Syllabus

<p>1. Where jurors, called on a trial for murder, from reading in the newspapers such accounts of the occurrence as were published had received impressions or formed opinions as to the guilt or innocence of the accused which it would require the testimony of sworn witnesses to remove or change, but testified that they could try the cause according to the law and the evidence, they were not disqualified.</p> <p>2. The evidence disclosing that the prisoner, after a quarrel with his wife, both being intoxicated, had taken time to heat a poker and with it inflicted upon her person fatal wounds which of themselves bore witness to a well-defined and definite purpose to destroy life, it was not error to instruct that there was little room left for doubt as to the deliberate and premeditated nature of the killing.</p>