Commonwealth v. Harold Roller

Opinion by

Gawthrop, J.,

Defendant appeals from five sentences of imprisonment imposed on bills of indictment charging him with entering with intent to steal, and larceny. The cases were tried together in the court below and were argued together in this court. They raise but a single question which will be answered in one opinion. After defendant was arrested he confessed to the various burglaries that he had committed. His confession was taken and recorded by a talking motion picture machine and the record thus made, which was offered in evidence and admitted over the objection of defendant,…