218 Pa. 437 | Pa. | 1907
The assignment of error on which the main argument is made is that there was no sufficient proof of the corpus delicti. But the evidence left no doubt that the child died from injuries to its head, resulting in a fracture of the skull, and the real issue was whether these injuries were the result of accident or were willfully inflicted by the prisoner. There was abundant evidence to take the latter question to the jury. It is true that some of it was circumstantial, but that was no objection to its competence or its conclusiveness: Com. v. Johnson, 162 Pa. 63 (69).
The other assignments are mainly detached portions of the charge, and do not require separate notice. The issue, as already said, was whether the injuries causing death were ac
The judgment is affirmed and the record remitted for purpose of execution.