Commonwealth v. Friedman

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia County by Harold Friedman, the defendant-appellant, after conviction of bribery and from the denial by the said court of motions in arrest of judgment and for a new trial.

Friedman was indicted for the statutory crime of bribery in an athletic contest as set forth in the Act of July 19, 1951, P.L. 1071, 18 PS §4614, which reads as follows: “Whoever gives or promises or offers, . . . to anyone who participates or expects to participate in any professional or amateur game . . .…