Commonwealth v. Vitale

Citations

• 250 Pa. 548
• 95 A. 723
• 1915 Pa. LEXIS 986

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Murder—Accessory before the fact — Guilt of principal — Record of .principal’s conviction.</p> <p>Where a defendant is. indicted as principal for murder but is tried as accessory before the fact, it is reversible error for the court to admit' in e'vidence the record of the trial of another as principal charged with the actual killing showing that the latter had been found guilty of murder of the first degree by a jury when a motion for a new trial was pending and no judgment had-been entered upon the verdict. •</p>