Killer v. Commonwealth

Citations

• 124 Pa. 92
• 16 A. 495
• 1889 Pa. LEXIS 1008

Syllabus

<p>On the trial of an indictment for murder, it was shown clearly that the deceased was found lying as if asleep in his bed, with his skull crushed in by a blow from some blunt instrument, his person covered with a blanket to his neck, his hands beneath the blanket and blood stained, and that a heavy iron sash-weight, also blood stained, was lying at his shoulders: in such case, the ingredients necessary to constitute murder in the first degree were proved to exist.</p>