Kehoe v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Schuylkill county: Of July Term 1877, No. 29. Certified from the Eastern District. Indictment of John Kehoe for the murder of Frank W. S. Lang-don. On the night of. Saturday the 14th of June 1862, Langdon was severely beaten at Audenreid, in Carbon county, and died from the effect of his injuries, at his house in Schuylkill county, on the following Tuesday.
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Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Schuylkill county: Of July Term 1877, No. 29. Certified from the Eastern District. Indictment of John Kehoe for the murder of Frank W. S. Lang-don. On the night of. Saturday the 14th of June 1862, Langdon was severely beaten at Audenreid, in Carbon county, and died from the effect of his injuries, at his house in Schuylkill county, on the following Tuesday. About fifteen years thereafter John Campbell, Neal Dougherty, John Kehoe, Michael McGee, Columbus McGee and John Chapman, were charged with and jointly indicted for the murder. Each defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
The plaintiff in error was indicted jointly with five others for the murder of Frank W. S. Langdon, charged to have been comnritted at Audenried, on the 14th of June 1862. The defendants each demanded a separate trial, which was granted. The assignments of error relate exclusively to the trial of John Kehoe, and we are not called upon to consider the legal status of any of the other defendants, except in so far as it may have affected their competency as witnesses, or otherwise have a legitimate bearing on the present case.
The testimony before the jury was of such a character as to leave no…
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