Commonwealth v. Trimmer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Luzerne county: Of January Term 1877, No. 162. Indictment of Samuel W. Trimmer, M. E. Gaughan and James Welch, under the 17lst section of the Penal Code, Pamph. L. 1860, 169, Purd.
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Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Luzerne county: Of January Term 1877, No. 162. Indictment of Samuel W. Trimmer, M. E. Gaughan and James Welch, under the 17lst section of the Penal Code, Pamph. L. 1860, 169, Purd. Dig. 365, pi. 255, -which provides:— “If any person shall forge, deface, embezzle, alter, corrupt, withdraw, falsify or unlawfully avoid any records, * * * or shall forge, deface or falsify * * * any certificates; or shall forge or deface * * * any document * * * or any proceeding whatever, of or belonging to any public office within this Commonwealth; or if any person shall…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mercur
This case is controlled by the effect to be given to the pleadings. The indictment substantially charges that the defendants forged, defaced, withdrew and falsified tally papers, certificates, documents and records, taken and made at the general election held on the 2d day of November 1875, in and for the township of “ .Old Eorge.” The defendants plead autrefois acquit, setting forth at length another indictment, which charged them with having committed the same offences in regard to the tally papers, certificates, documents and records, taken and made at a general election held on the same…
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