Commonwealth v. Haas
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to tbe Court of Quarter Sessions of Lehigh county: No. 90, to January Term 1868. In tbe court below tbis was a prosecution against Levi Haas, for obtaining money on false pretences. Tbe prosecution was commenced on an information before a justice of tbe peace, made March 7th 1867, that tbe defendant in May 1865 bad obtained from tbe prosecutor $9000 by false pretences. Tbe grand jury, September 11th 1867, returned tbe bill on tbis prosecution a true bill.
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Certiorari to tbe Court of Quarter Sessions of Lehigh county: No. 90, to January Term 1868. In tbe court below tbis was a prosecution against Levi Haas, for obtaining money on false pretences. Tbe prosecution was commenced on an information before a justice of tbe peace, made March 7th 1867, that tbe defendant in May 1865 bad obtained from tbe prosecutor $9000 by false pretences. Tbe grand jury, September 11th 1867, returned tbe bill on tbis prosecution a true bill. Tbe indictment charged tbe offence as having been committed on tbe 9th of May 1865. There was a motion made to quash tbe…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Sharswood, J.
The question which it is intended to raise on this record is, whether the limitation prescribed in the Act of March 31st 1860, § 77, Pamph. L. 450, entitled “ An act to consolidate, revise and amend the laws of this Commonwealth relating to penal proceedings and pleadings,” is to be computed from the time a true bill is found by the grand jury, or from the date of the complaint preferred before a magistrate, where the prosecution has been commenced in that manner. The act provides, that “ all indictments which shall hereafter be brought…
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