Commonwealth v. Brown
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 13, Jan. T., 1906, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Monroe Co., May T., 1904, No. 13, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Linda Brown. Indictment for forgery. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Error assigned was in giving binding instructions in favor of the commonwealth.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
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The appellant was convicted of having forged a promissory note dated March 10, 1904, for $850, payable to the First National Bank of Stroudsburg purporting to be the obligation of Elizabeth Bornhoeft. When the case came on for trial, the *298defendant entered a plea of autrefois acquit upon which issue was joined by the commonwealth. On the trial of this issue, it appeared that the defendant had been tried and acquitted on an indictment charging her with having forged a promissory note dated March 12,1904, for $900, payable to the Stroudsburg National Bank, purporting to be the…
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