Carroll v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Oyer and Terminer of Schuylkill county: Of January Term 1877, No. 12. Indictment of James Carroll, James Boyle, Hugh McGehan and James Roarity for the murder of Benjamin F. Yost. At about 2 o’clock of the morning of July 6th 1875, Yost, a policeman in the borough of Tamaqua, Schuylkill county, was fatally shot while in the act of extinguishing a street lamp in the western end of Rroad street, in said borough.
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Error to the Oyer and Terminer of Schuylkill county: Of January Term 1877, No. 12. Indictment of James Carroll, James Boyle, Hugh McGehan and James Roarity for the murder of Benjamin F. Yost. At about 2 o’clock of the morning of July 6th 1875, Yost, a policeman in the borough of Tamaqua, Schuylkill county, was fatally shot while in the act of extinguishing a street lamp in the western end of Rroad street, in said borough. While standing’ upon a ladder, in the act of turning off the gas, he was approached by two strangers, who, after discharging their pistols and inflicting upon him a wound…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Agnew
*123The county of Schuylkill constitutes a separate judicial district, having five judges, of whom three are learned in the law, and two are associates. One of the judges learned in the law and an associate were engaged in the trial of Thomas Munley for homicide from the 27th of June until July 12th 1876. The case of these prisoners, James Carroll, James Boyle, Hugh McGehan and James Roarity, was called for trial July 6th 1876, before President Judge Pershing and Judge Walker, an associate learned in the law. In consequence of motions for a change of venue and to quash the array of jurors, the…
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