Commonwealth v. Force
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 13, Feb. T., 1910, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Clinton Co., Oct. T., 1909, No. 9, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Alva Force. Indictment for larceny.
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Appeal, No. 13, Feb. T., 1910, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Clinton Co., Oct. T., 1909, No. 9, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Alva Force. Indictment for larceny. Before Hall, P. J. At the trial the defendant made the following offer: Mr. McCormick: I offer to prove by this witness that the defendant brought the razor to his home, to her house, and proposed to take it back to the jail to deliver it to the sheriff; that she said to him that he should not go back to the jail but that she would take the razor back and deliver it for him; that afterwards she overlooked the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Porter, J.,
The defendant was in the indictment charged with the larceny of a razor, the property of the county of Clinton. The commonwealth produced evidence which, if believed, established that the razor was the property of the county of Clinton, that it was kept in the county jail in the charge of the sheriff for the purpose of being used by the prisoners to shave themselves while in the jail; that the defendant knew these facts and in common with other inmates of the jail used the razor while a prisoner and, knowing that the razor was the property of the county, he clandestinely…
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