The accused stood nervously in front of an Allegheny County jury and pledged to prove he didn’t kill his mother and her friend in Homestead last year.
Defendant John Malcolm Smith V, 26, of McKeesport was acting as his own lawyer Tuesday, the start of his double homicide trial.
He’s charged with killing his mother Antoinette Porterfield, 45, and her friend, John West, 54, at his mother’s home in August 2024…