Commonwealth v. Berney
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 18, Oct. T., 1905, by defendant, from judgment of O. & T. Blair Co., June T., 1904, No. 6, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Harry Berney and Jacob Black. Indictment for larceny.
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Appeal, No. 18, Oct. T., 1905, by defendant, from judgment of O. & T. Blair Co., June T., 1904, No. 6, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Harry Berney and Jacob Black. Indictment for larceny. Before Bell, P. J. The court charged in part as follows: [The commonwealth claim that somebody out of those two cars, Cumberland valley No. 705 and St. Louis line 10,557, stole the sixty-eight pigs of tin, and the commonwealth allege that these blocks of tin were stolen after the cars arrived in Altoona; that the testimony of the sealers at Jersey City shows that the cars were sealed there…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Henderson, J.,
For the purpose of showing that the larceny involved in the charge against the defendants was committed within the county, the commonwealth introduced the record of car inspection kept by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Altoona. This record was made up by a clerk or clerks of the company from reports sent in by car inspectors employed in the freight yard at that city. The reports were made on slips or memorandum papers and sent by messengers to the office, and a tabulation or summary was made up from these slips. The inspectors were instructed to report any broken…
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