Opinion by
This is аn appeal by the defendant, William Lyons, from sentence on conviction of murder of the first degree. For a year or more prior to the homicide, Lyons kept a restaurant at 501 South Frоnt Street, Philadelphia, and Lizzie Hawkins, herein referred to as his wife, resided with him. She had left him, however, and been living with a Mrs. Martin at 443 Lombard Street for about *329 ten days, when, on January 16, 1924, he came there and called for his wife, who declined to see him for fear of personal violence. Lyons left, but sоon returned, entered the room where she and others were, and, after a brief conversаtion, drew a large revolver and fired at his wife, wounding her arm. He then fired three more shots, killing Rex Humphrey, the deceased, who was in the same room. The defendant gave conflicting accоunts as to the shooting. In a signed statement he said he fired four shots at his wife and that the shooting of Humphrey was an accident; when first arrested, he claimed he shot deceased because thе latter had taken his (defendant’s) wife; while, as a witness at the trial, he testified he only shot to frighten his wife, and then, because of a blow on the head and intoxication, became unconscious аnd knew nothing about the shooting of Humphrey.
The defendant’s felonious assault upon his wife and murder of Humрhrey were so interwoven as to bé a double crime, and, on the theory that the fatal shots werе intended for the wife, the guilt would be the same as though her life had been taken. In other words, the degree of guilt is not varied because mortal violence intended for one person accidentally kills another: Com. v. Johnson, 219. Pa. 174; Com. v. Eisenhower,
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Defendant testified in chief as to his wife having left him, and, on cross-examination, the district attorney asked him if that was not after he had been arrested for assaulting her. Defendant denied the assault but admitted the arrest. Then defendant’s сounsel interposed an objection to this line of cross-examination and asked that because thereof a juror be withdrawn and case continued. The trial judge sustained the objection but declined to withdraw a juror. Thereupon the district attorney attempted to withdraw the question, but thе opposing counsel objected, and, in answer, defendant said.he was arrested, but dischargеd the next morning when his wife declined to prosecute. As the latter testimony was given without objection or exception, and at the instance of defendant’s counsel, its admission cannot be suсcessfully assigned as error, whether or not it was proper cross-examination. True, the Act of March 15, 1911, P. L. 20, provides, inter alia, that, “Any person charged with any crime, and called as a witness in his own behalf, shall not be asked, and, if asked, shall not be required to answer, any question tending to shoAV that he has committed, or been charged with, or been convicted of any offense other than thе one wherewith he shall then be charged.” We do not agree with appellant’s contentiоn, however, that the fact of the district attorney’s asking the defendant as to his arrest for an assаult upon his wife, to which we have referred, — assuming that, because of the statute, it was improper,— necessitated the withdrawal of a juror and continuance of the case. “It is not sufficient, as a general rule, to show that an improper question, either in form or substance, has been put to a witness; it must appear that an answer was received which tended to injure the case of the appellant: Com. v. Craig,
Here all the elements of' a first degree murder were present and the trial was free from error.
The judgment is affirmed and the record remitted for the purpose of execution.