Commonwealth v. Poundstone

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

The Commonwealth has appealed from the orders sustaining the demurrers made by the defendants who were tried on the charges of bribery and conspiracy.

In the course of the trial, the Commonwealth offered certain evidence which the court refused to admit. At the conclusion of the Commonwealth’s evidence, a demurrer was interposed in each case. The court sustained the demurrers, and subsequently refused to remove them.1

Without the evidence which the Commonwealth offered and which the court refused to admit, there is insufficient evidence to support a conviction of any of…