Commonwealth v. Bell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Nos. 37, 36, 38 October Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 8 September Term 1890, Q. S. no. 37. On December 22,1890, John.R. Tate caused to be presented to Mr. Justice Clark at Chambers, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus directed to Samuel W. Bell, sheriff of Lawrence county.
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Nos. 37, 36, 38 October Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 8 September Term 1890, Q. S. no. 37. On December 22,1890, John.R. Tate caused to be presented to Mr. Justice Clark at Chambers, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus directed to Samuel W. Bell, sheriff of Lawrence county. The petition made the following averments: “ That on the fifteenth day of December, 1890, at No. 8 September Sessions of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Lawrence county, there was pending and undetermined an indictment against one William D. Wallace, wherein it was charged: “1. That the said William D. Wallace…
1Opinion of the Court
NO. 37 : COMMONWEALTH, EX REL. TATE.
Opinion,
Mb. Justice Sterbett :
In December, 1890, William D. Wallace was on trial in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Lawrence county on an indictment charging him, in the second count, with offering John R. Tate, Edwin Shaffer, and Thomas J. Downing, electors and delegates to a nominating convention, money as a bribe ; and, in the third count, with soliciting, encouraging, and requesting said John R. Tate, Edwin Shaffer, and Thomas J. Downing, delegates to a nominating convention, to receive and accept money as a bribe, to influence them to make and join in…
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