Kramer v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Columbia county: Of May Term 1878, No. 43. Indictment of Harmon A. Kramer for arson, charged with burning the Exchange Hotel in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.
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Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Columbia county: Of May Term 1878, No. 43. Indictment of Harmon A. Kramer for arson, charged with burning the Exchange Hotel in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. The three counts of the indictment charged that defendant had set fire to said building on the 23d of May 1877. • At the trial it was shown on the' part of the Commonwealth that about 1 o’clock on the morning of the23dof May 1877, fires were discovered in the east and west basements of the hotel; that the defendant, who was an inmate of the hotel, had been seen in these ■basements on the day before,…
1Opinion of the Court
.The judgment of -the Supreme Court was entered
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WeMiscover no error in this-case.. The assign--men't most relied on,, the third, is not sustained. The offer ivas not *to prove an independent offence on the trial of a óase having no connection with it, as in Shaffner v. 'Commonwealth, 20 P. F. .Smith • 60,.but it'ay as to prove acts immediately after the first attempt 'to burn the hotel, which tended to show a guilty purpose in Kramer’s mind, such as Avould mak.e it quite probable that he was the same' person Avho had made the former attempt. It was a circumstance in the chain of…
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