Commonwealth v. Goodelman
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 111, Oct. T., 1920, by defendant, from judgment of Municipal Court, Philadelphia County, December Sessions, 1919, No. 319, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Joseph Goodleman. Indictment for larceny and receiving stolen goods. Before McNiohol, J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the ease. Verdict of guilty on which judgment of sentence was passed. Defendant appealed.
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Appeal, No. 111, Oct. T., 1920, by defendant, from judgment of Municipal Court, Philadelphia County, December Sessions, 1919, No. 319, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Joseph Goodleman. Indictment for larceny and receiving stolen goods. Before McNiohol, J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the ease. Verdict of guilty on which judgment of sentence was passed. Defendant appealed. Error assigned was the charge of the court and refusal to quash the indictment.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Keller, J.,
The appellant was convicted of larceny and receiving stolen goods. The indictment charged him with stealing (and receiving, etc.), a roll of woolen cloth, the property of Theodore Devine, John Smith and John Boelinger, trading as Keystone Cloth Sponging Company. On the trial it was developed that the cloth had been stolen from Devine and his copartners, with whom it had been left by the owner, one John Taplinger, for the purpose of having it sponged.
The first assignment of error complains of the refusal of the trial judge to direct a verdict of not guilty, because the…
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