Thompson v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
No. 186 July Term, 1886, Supt. Ct.; court below, No. 32 March Term, 1885.. Q. S Samuel Thompson and Robert Thompson were indicted in the Quarter Sessions uppn an information made by Mrs. Ada Krepps for forcible entry and detainer. On the trial the court below, James Inghram, P. J., submitted to the jury to find from the evidence of facts, which are sufficiently stated in the opinion below, whether the defendants were guilty or not guilty.
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No. 186 July Term, 1886, Supt. Ct.; court below, No. 32 March Term, 1885.. Q. S Samuel Thompson and Robert Thompson were indicted in the Quarter Sessions uppn an information made by Mrs. Ada Krepps for forcible entry and detainer. On the trial the court below, James Inghram, P. J., submitted to the jury to find from the evidence of facts, which are sufficiently stated in the opinion below, whether the defendants were guilty or not guilty. After verdict for the commonwealth, the defendants made a motion in arrest of judgment upon the ground inter alia that “the evidence did not support the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Gordon :
An examination of the evidence in this case develops the following facts: John Dutton, the alleged tenant of the prosecutrix, left his shop at about five o’clock on the evening of the 4th of November, 1884, and when he returned the next morning he found, as he says, that the lock had been taken off the door and two new ones put on, the one on the inside and the other on the outside. He discovered no other marks of violence than what is here stated, except that a piece had been cut out of the door. His possession does not seem to have been disturbed, nor was there…
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