Commonwealth v. Yerkes

Opinion by

Gawthrop, J.,

Defendant wa>s indicted and convicted on four bills of indictment, two charging him with a malfeasance and misdemeanor in office, and two charging him with extortion and blackmail. The sentence to pay a fine of $500 and the costs of prosecution and suffer punishment by separate and solitary confinement in the county jail for a period of six months and to vacate the office of justice of the peace was imposed on one of the bills charging malfeasance and misdemeanor in office, the other three indictments being disregarded by the trial judge in passing sentence, because the…