Commonwealth v. Kaysier

Argued November 22, 1949. The defendant Mitchell Kaysier has appealed from three convictions of robbery, on each of which the court imposed a sentence of from 10 to 20 years, to be served consecutively. His principal complaint, in seeking a new trial, is that the court abused its discretion in consolidating the charges of the various indictments for trial.

Although there were sixteen indictments, they charged related offenses arising from the alleged criminal acts of the defendant with others, in but five instances on five separate occasions. The first of these was the burglary of a State…