COMMONWEALTH v. BROECKEY


364 Pa. 368 (1950)

Commonwealth v. Broeckey, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 20, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel Kagle, with him Milton Jacobson and Charles Blasband, for appellant.

Roger B. Reynolds, Assistant District Attorney, with him J. Stroud Weber, District Attorney, for appellee.

Before MAXEY, C.J., DREW, LINN, STERN, STEARNE and JONES, JJ.


OPINION BY Mr. Justice DREW, March 20, 1950:

The jury found Andro Broeckey, defendant, guilty of murder in the first degree and fixed the penalty at life imprisonment. He has appealed from that judgment and sentence.

Broeckey resided in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. Esther Hayes lived there with him from December, 1946, until July, 1947, when she went to live with John Jacauyies in the basement of a farm house near Oaks, Montgomery County. Defendant learned...

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