Commonwealth v. Myers
Clarion County Court of Quarter Sessions
No. 57 October Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 8 November Term 1890, Q. S. On November 11, 1890, tbe grand jury returned as a true bill an indictment in two counts against Elizabeth Myers and Ira Myers, the first count charging that on July 6, 1890, the said defendants, with other persons unknown, “ wickedly devising and intending to kidnap, decoy, and carry away a certain child, then and there under the protection, control, and authority of one Jessie Myers,” did…
Read the full summary
No. 57 October Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 8 November Term 1890, Q. S. On November 11, 1890, tbe grand jury returned as a true bill an indictment in two counts against Elizabeth Myers and Ira Myers, the first count charging that on July 6, 1890, the said defendants, with other persons unknown, “ wickedly devising and intending to kidnap, decoy, and carry away a certain child, then and there under the protection, control, and authority of one Jessie Myers,” did fraudulently, maliciously and unlawfully conspire, combine and confederate together, “ by trick, artifice, and fraud, and by…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mb,. Justice McCollum:
The appellant, Ira Myers, and his mother, Elizabeth Myers, together with divers other persons whose names were to the inquest unknown, were indicted for conspiring to “ kidnap, decoy, and carry away a certain child 'under the protection, control, and authority of one Jessie Myers,” and for taking said child, in pursuance of the conspiracy, from the possession of “the said Jessie Myers.”
The case was evidently regarded in the court below as an indictment for a conspiracy to commit the offence described in the ninety-fourth section of the act of March 31, 1860, P.…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Hazen v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1854
- Burns v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1889
- Twitchell v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1848
- Commonwealth v. PutnamSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1857
3Cited by8 opinions
- Commonwealth v. RiveraSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2003
- State v. ElliottSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1930
- Mawhinney v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1965
- State v. HuhnSupreme Court of Missouri · 1940
- State v. DeweySupreme Court of Iowa · 1912
3 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.