Commonwealth v. Dickinson
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 249, Oct. T., 1913, by plaintiff, from order of Q. S. Clearfield Co., May Sessions, 1913, No. 19, quashing indictment in case of Commonwealth v. B. M. Dickinson. Indictment for killing a deer.. Before Searle, P. J., specially presiding. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned was order quashing the indictment.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
This is an appeal by the commonwealth from an order of the court of quarter sessions quashing an indictment which charged that on November 21, 1911, the defendant did unlawfully and wilfully “kill a male deer, which did not have horns visible above the hair.” The prosecution for the alleged offense was begun before a justice of the peace in June, 1912, and resulted in the conviction of the defendant, from which, by special allowance, he appealed to the quarter sessions, wherein the indictment was found on August 26, 1913. At the time of the commission of the alleged…
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