Commonwealth v. Cook
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
THE prisoners, Cook, Caldwell, and Ross, had been in-dieted at a Court of Oyer and Terminer, held by the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Philadelphia, J r 7 in the months of April and May last, for the murder of Samuel Alwine.
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THE prisoners, Cook, Caldwell, and Ross, had been in-dieted at a Court of Oyer and Terminer, held by the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Philadelphia, J r 7 in the months of April and May last, for the murder of Samuel Alwine. A petit jury was .empanelled for their trial, who, after having heard the evidence, the addresses of counsel . . , r 1 . , 1 1 r , the prosecution and tor the prisoners, and the charge or the Court, retired- from the bar to deliberate on their verdict. They returned to the Court several times without having agreed, and were sent back by the Court.…
1Opinion of the CourtTilghman, C. J.
A bill of indictment having been found against the three prisoners during the present session of this Court, for the murder of Samuel Alwine, they put in a plea, supposed by them to be of the same import as a plea of autrefois acquit, to which the attorney for the Commonwealth *579demurred, and the prisoners joined in demurrer. The prisoners have likewise entered on the record a motion to be discharged from this indictment for the same reasons as are set forth in their plea. The plea is, in substance, as follows: ‘That at a former Court of Oyer and Terminer, held before the Judges of the Court of…
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