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COMMONWEALTH v. VASSAR

370 Pa. 551 (1952)

Commonwealth v. Vassar, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 26, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred B. Trescher, with him P.K. Jones and Kunkle & Trescher, for appellant.

Joseph M. Loughran, Assistant District Attorney, with him L. Alexander Sculco, District Attorney, for appellee.

Before DREW, C.J., STERN, STEARNE, JONES, BELL, CHIDSEY and MUSMANNO, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE MUSMANNO, May 26, 1952:

On January 13, 1951, Beatrice Vassar, 55 years of age, shot and killed her husband, 71 years of age, in New Kensington, Westmoreland County. She was indicted, tried, and convicted of murder in the first degree; and sentenced under the finding of the jury, to life imprisonment. Her motion in the lower Court for a new trial was refused and an appeal has been taken to this Court...

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