Legal Opinion · Dissent

Commonwealth v. COHEN

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 19, 1964No. Appeals, 273 to 278Published

1Dissent

Dissenting Opinion by

Watkins, J.:

I would arrest the judgments of sentence and discharge the defendants on the ground that although the indictment found alleges a corrupt conspiracy within the statutory period in that the last overt act was committed on September 19, 1957, the evidence of the Commonwealth shows that the last overt act that extended the existence of the alleged conspiracy took place on September 16, 1957, which was beyond the statutory period. The proof of the Commonwealth is that a check was made by the Union to Joseph E. Grace, one of the defendants, since deceased, on…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. PrepSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1958
  2. Commonwealth v. MezickSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1941
  3. Commonwealth v. PETROSKYSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1960
  4. Commonwealth v. FabrizioSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1961
  5. Commonwealth v. RosicciSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1962

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