Commonwealth v. Levine
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 130, April T., 1908, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Allegheny Co., April T., 1908, No. 130, affirming judgment of police magistrate in case of Commonwealth v. David Levine. Appeal from summary conviction for vagrancy. At the trial appellant proposed to prove by his parents and other witnesses the appellant is not a vagrant. That at the time of his arrest he resided at No. 1224 Clark street, Pittsburg, Pa., with his parents.
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Appeal, No. 130, April T., 1908, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Allegheny Co., April T., 1908, No. 130, affirming judgment of police magistrate in case of Commonwealth v. David Levine. Appeal from summary conviction for vagrancy. At the trial appellant proposed to prove by his parents and other witnesses the appellant is not a vagrant. That at the time of his arrest he resided at No. 1224 Clark street, Pittsburg, Pa., with his parents. That he has resided there with his parents for the past twenty years. That at the time of his arrest he was engaged in the produce business with his…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
The Act of June 16, 1891, P. L. 303, applying to cities of the second class, provides that it “shall and may be lawful for any such police magistrate where vagrants may be found within the city in which such police magistrate resides or is appointed to commit such vagrants (being thereof legally convicted before him, on his own view or by confession of such offenders or by the oath or affirmation of one or more credible witnesses) to the workhouse of the county .... if such there be, otherwise to the common jail of such county, there to be kept at such hard labor ....…
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