Commonwealth v. Hill
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 290, Oct. T., 1910, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Phila. Co., April T., .1910, No. 635, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Arthur V. Hill. Indictment for keeping a disorderly house. Before Brégy, J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Verdict of guilty, upon which judgment of sentence was passed. Defendant appealed. Error assigned was in dismissing motion for arrest of judgment.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion bt
Head, J.,
The defendant was convicted and sentenced on an indictment which in a single count charged that he “unlawfully did keep and maintain a certain common ill-governed and disorderly house,” and “in said house did make loans to said persons at usurious rates of interest to the great damage and common nuisance of all the citizens, etc.”
The evidence produced by the commonwealth — the defendant offered none — established that the latter was the manager in charge of a business conducted under the name of The Reliance Loan Company. This business was to lend small sums of money to…
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- Fitzsimons v. BaumSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1863
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- Begelfer v. Rhoads, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Dauphin County1928
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