Commonwealth v. Connors
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 317, Jan. T., 1893, by defendant, Wallie Connors, from judgment of O. and T. Northampton Co., June T., 1892, No. 35, on verdict for Commonwealth. Indictment for larceny "of notes from bank.
Read the full summary
Appeal, No. 317, Jan. T., 1893, by defendant, Wallie Connors, from judgment of O. and T. Northampton Co., June T., 1892, No. 35, on verdict for Commonwealth. Indictment for larceny "of notes from bank. At the trial, before Reeder, J., there was evidence that defendant went into the Easton National Bank on July 21, 1892, and, while two of his confederates engaged the attention of the bank officer, slipped into the vault and stole a package of notes amounting to $4,000. One of his confederates was never found nor identified. The other was ascertained to be a man by the name of Joseph Howard,…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
The prisoner was jointly indicted with two others for the larceny of §4,000 from the Easton National Bank, but for reasons satisfactory to the commonwealth he alone put upon trial. One of the others — Joseph Howard, with several aliases — had theretofore been convicted and was then under sentence in the Eastern Penitentiary for stealing §14,000 from a bank in Lewis-burg.
It was claimed by the commonwealth, and the evidence tended to prove, that the prisoner was one of a band of professional thieves and burglars by whom the crime charged in the indictment was adroitly planned and…
2Cited by10 opinions
- Commonwealth v. WinterSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1927
- Commonwealth v. DucaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1933
- State v. RobertsNevada Supreme Court · 1905
- Thompson v. DeLongSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1920
- Considine v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1901
5 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.