Commonwealth v. Yerkes
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 159, Oct. T., 1912, by defendants, from judgment of 0. & T. Pbila. Co., October Sessions, 1911, No. 530, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Martin Yerkes and Roland B. Respess. Indictment for conspiracy. The opinion of the Superior Court and the assignments of error sufficiently indicate the questions in the case. Verdict of guilty, upon which judgment of sentence was passed.
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Appeal, No. 159, Oct. T., 1912, by defendants, from judgment of 0. & T. Pbila. Co., October Sessions, 1911, No. 530, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Martin Yerkes and Roland B. Respess. Indictment for conspiracy. The opinion of the Superior Court and the assignments of error sufficiently indicate the questions in the case. Verdict of guilty, upon which judgment of sentence was passed. Errors assigned were in the following form: 1. The learned trial judge erred in sustaining the objection of the commonwealth and in refusing to permit the witness then testifying to answer the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Morrison, J.,
The defendants were tried on an indictment containing two counts charging them with conspiring and agreeing together by divers unlawful, false, fraudulent, etc., devices and contrivances and by publishing false statements of and concerning the ownership and value of the property of a corporation called the Kimberley Consolidated Mines Company, and by false statements of the financial standing and condition of said company, and by means of threats and menaces seeking to damage, injure, ruin and destroy the business and credit of the said corporation, and willfully,…
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