Sherban v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the quarter sessions of Cumberland county. ' Commonwealth against Daniel Sherban. Indictment for. betting on an election; in which the offence was thus laid: “ The grand inquest of the commonwealth' of Pennsylvania, inquiring in and for the county of Cumberland, on their oaths and affirmations respectively, do present: That Daniel Sherban, late, &c., on the ,28th of September 1838, in the county aforesaid, and within, the-jurisdiction, of this court, did lay a wager…
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ERROR to the quarter sessions of Cumberland county. ' Commonwealth against Daniel Sherban. Indictment for. betting on an election; in which the offence was thus laid: “ The grand inquest of the commonwealth' of Pennsylvania, inquiring in and for the county of Cumberland, on their oaths and affirmations respectively, do present: That Daniel Sherban, late, &c., on the ,28th of September 1838, in the county aforesaid, and within, the-jurisdiction, of this court, did lay a wager and bet with a certain Jacob Clark, and that the said Daniel Sherban did then and there lay a wager and bet of fifty…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Sergeant, J.
It is a general rule that, in all indictments, the charge must be positively averred; but in what cases it is or is not sufficiently averred, is not ascertained with precision, and must be left, in a great measure, to the legal discretion of the court. 2 Hawk. P. C. 228. Indictments require only the same certainty as declarations, namely, certainty to a common intent in general, and Hot certainty in every particular as is required in pleading an estoppel. Co. Lit. 303; 2 Str. 904; 1 Chitt. Cr. Law, 169. It is a rule that that which is…
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