Walters v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error, to the Oyer and Terminer of Clarion county. Joseph Walters, Philip Walters, and Philip Huling, the plaintiffs in error, were jointly indicted with Joseph Snyder, Joseph Harman, and George Fulmer, for the murder of Martin Keleher, on the evening of the 2d day of September 1862. Harman and Fulmer were tried along with the plaintiffs in error, but wore acquitted by the jury.
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Error, to the Oyer and Terminer of Clarion county. Joseph Walters, Philip Walters, and Philip Huling, the plaintiffs in error, were jointly indicted with Joseph Snyder, Joseph Harman, and George Fulmer, for the murder of Martin Keleher, on the evening of the 2d day of September 1862. Harman and Fulmer were tried along with the plaintiffs in error, but wore acquitted by the jury. Snyder elected to have a separate trial, and his case was continued to February Term 1863. The indictment contained three counts. The first two were for murder, and the third for voluntary manslaughter. Martin…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Thompson, J.
At the December Term of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, holden for the county of Clarion, the plaintiffs in error were convicted and sentenced for involuntary manslaughter, on an indictment charging murder in killing one Martin Keleher, on the 2d day of September last.
The principal assignment of error, and the only one which will be considered here, is to this sentence: the plaintiffs in error contending that they could not be legally convicted, and therefore could not be sentenced for the offence of involuntary manslaughter on an…
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