Commonwealth v. Braunfeldt
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 93, Oct. T., 1918, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Montgomery County, Oct. T., 1917, No. 159-1, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Edward S. Braunfeldt. Indictment for arson.
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Appeal, No. 93, Oct. T., 1918, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Montgomery County, Oct. T., 1917, No. 159-1, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Edward S. Braunfeldt. Indictment for arson. Before Milleb, J. The indictment charged that the defendant “Unlawfully? wilfully and maliciously did set fire to with intent to burn and did burn and cause to be burned two barns, on the property of Agnes W. Braunfeldt in Upper Gwynedd Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, then and there being the property of the said Agnes W. Braunfeldt, with the intention thereby to defraud or…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Porter, J.,
The appellant was tried and convicted in the court below of a misdemeanor, under an indictment which charged that he did willfully and maliciously set fire to with intent to burn and did burn two barns, “on the property of Agnes W. Braunfeldt in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, then and there being the property of the said Agnes W. Braunfeldt, with an intention thereby to defraud the Royal Insurance Company, &c.” The evidence in the case was circumstantial and the first fourteen specifications of error refer to the comments of the court in its charge upon that evidence.…
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