Commonwealth v. Wallace
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Lawrence county: ’Of October Term 1886, No. 235. . This was an indictment for obtaining money by false pretence found by the grand jury of said county against Daniel H. Wallace. The following is the indictment.
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Lawrence county: ’Of October Term 1886, No. 235. . This was an indictment for obtaining money by false pretence found by the grand jury of said county against Daniel H. Wallace. The following is the indictment. The Grand Inquest of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, inquiring in and for the body of the county of Lawrence, upon their oaths and solemn affirmations, respectively, do present, that Daniel H. Wallace, yeoman, late of the county of Lawrence aforesaid, heretofore, to wit: On the twenty-first day of June, in the year of our…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trunkey
It is contended by the defendant that the Commonwealth is not entitled to a writ of error, or certiorari in this case. Reference is made to Commonwealth v. Moore 99 Pa. St., 570, where one of the judges was of opinion that the writ should be quashed; the court, however, sustained the writ and affirmed the judgment. 0
*411The Criminal Procedure Act of 1860, § 33, provides that any person indicted, may remove the proceedings therein into the Supreme Court, provided that said court, or one of the judges thereof, or the attorney general, allows the writ upon sufficient cause. Other sections provide…
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