Commonwealth v. Dillen

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania January 23, 1905

Commonwealth v. Dillen, 210 Pa. 579 (Pa. 1905)

60 A. 263; 1905 Pa. LEXIS 344

Brown, Cubiam, Dean, Elkin, Fell, Mestrezat, Mitchell, Potter

Opinion of the Court

Peb Cubiam,

The evidence in these cases does not raise the slightest doubt *582about the guilt of the appellants, or the degree of it, the fairness of their trial, or the correctness of the rulings of the trial judge on the law as applicable to the evidence.

The specifications of error are all of them immaterial and most of them frivolous. So far as the points raised would justify notice they are sufficiently discussed, in the opinion of the court below refusing a new trial.

The judgments are affirmed and the records remitted for purpose of execution.

Reference

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Syllabus: Criminal law—Murder—Intention. A verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree will be sustained where the evidence tends to show that the two prisoners, in an attempt to break jail, armed themselves with heavy pieces of iron, lay in wait for the turnkey, and when he appeared sprang upon him and struck him heavy blows on the head from which he died about twenty-eight hours afterwards. Criminal law—Murder—Money for defense—County commissioners. The court has no authority to make an order upon the county commissioners to pay a sum of money to be used in defending a prisoner indicted for murder. All that the court can do is to grant an application for compulsory process for witnesses.