Commonwealth v. Haines
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 30, April T., 1914, by plaintiff, from order of Q. S. Greene Co., Sept. Term, 1913, No. 1, quashing indictment in case of Commonwealth v. Debbie Haines. Motion to quash indictment. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned was order quashing the indictment. The information was sufficient: Com. v. Dingman, 26 Pa. Superior Ct. 615; Com. v. Robertson, 47 Pa. Superior Ct. 472. The information was not sufficient: Hunter v. Com., 2 S. & R. 298.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Porter, J.,
This is an appeal by the commonwealth from an order and judgment of the court below quashing an indictment. The indictment charged the defendant, in the precise language of sec. 42 of the Act of March 31, 1860, P. L. 382, with the offense which in the common language of the people has very long been designated as “keeping a disorderly house.” The indictment charged the offense to be “to the common nuisance and disturbance of the neighborhood,” and it is conceded that it accurately defined the offense, in the very language of the statute. The only ground upon which the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Commonwealth v. DingmanSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
- Commonwealth v. RobertsonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1911
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- Commonwealth v. McLaughlinDauphin County Court of Quarter Sessions · 1927
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