Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Baldwin

Philadelphia County Court of Quarter Sessions

Decided May 8, 1929No. 1392Published

1Opinion of the Court

Alessandroni, J.,

This is a motion to quash the bill of indictment. Joseph L. Baldwin, being Assistant Director of Public Health, on Nov. 8, 1927, the day fixed by law for the election of municipal officers of the City of Philadelphia, is charged in the first count with being and appearing in a certain polling-place in the 31st Election District of the 26th Ward of the City of Philadelphia for a purpose and purposes other than the purpose of marking and depositing his ballot as an elector of said election district as speedily as it reasonably could be done . . . and was in said polling-place…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Sugar Notch BoroughSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
  2. Booth & Flinn, Ltd. v. MillerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1912
  3. Commonwealth v. JonesSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1897
  4. Commonwealth v. SellersSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1889
  5. Germantown Trust Co. v. PowellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1919

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