Commonwealth v. Cohen

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

Appellant was convicted in the court below of a felony — the larceny of money from certain coin boxes installed in a station lavatory by a railroad company— and has appealed to us for a new trial upon two grounds. He contends, in the first place, that he was deprived of his constitutional right to be present in court when the jurors before whom he was tried were instructed upon certain principles of law which they were told to apply in determining his guilt or innocence, and, in the second place, that the trial judge erred in admitting evidence of an alleged offer to…