Commonwealth v. Taylor
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 3, March T., 1922, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Dauphin County, Jan. Sessions, 1921, No. 169, on verdict of guilty, in the case of Commonwealth v. Harry J. Taylor. Indictment for felonious entry and larceny. Before Hargest, P. J. The defendant was charged with having assisted other persons, separately indicted, but tried jointly with defendant, in feloniously entering a Pennsylvania Railroad car, and stealing a large quantity of cigarets therefrom.
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Appeal, No. 3, March T., 1922, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Dauphin County, Jan. Sessions, 1921, No. 169, on verdict of guilty, in the case of Commonwealth v. Harry J. Taylor. Indictment for felonious entry and larceny. Before Hargest, P. J. The defendant was charged with having assisted other persons, separately indicted, but tried jointly with defendant, in feloniously entering a Pennsylvania Railroad car, and stealing a large quantity of cigarets therefrom. Verdict of guilty and judgment of sentence thereon. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned were various parts of the charge of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Trexler, J.,
Defendants were convicted of felonious entry and larceny. There are eleven assignments of error presented, nine of them directed to the charge of the court. There was only a general exception taken to the charge and therefore only basic fundamental error should be con*388sidered: Commonwealth v. Scherer, 266 Pa. 210. We find nothing that would warrant a reversal even if matters involved were properly before us.
It is said that the court charged the jury that if the defendants conspired to commit the offense, they were guilty of it. If we take the entire paragraph in which…
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