Commonwealth v. Edmiston
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 202, Oct. T., 1905, by defendants, from order of Q. S. Blair Co., Oct. T., 1905, No. 38, refusing to quash indictment in case of Commonwealth v. Lewis Edmiston and Scott Shaw. Indictment for keeping a gambling house. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Error assigned was order refusing to quash indictment.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
The defendants were charged in an indictment containing two counts with violations of sec. 55 of the act of March 31, 1860 P. L. 382 relative to gambling. The direct evidence of their guilt adduced at the trial was abundant and uncontradicted ; it also was shown, and of this there was no denial, that *56by payment of money they induced two of the commonwealth’s witnesses to absent themselves at the time the grand jury was in session in order to prevent the finding of a true bill. They offered no evidence whatever, and the court submitted the case to the jury with brief but…
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