Ream v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In Error. ERROR to the Quarter Sessions of Dauphin county. Ream, the defendant below, was indicted for forgery. The indictment contained foul' counts, upon the second of which he was convicted.
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In Error. ERROR to the Quarter Sessions of Dauphin county. Ream, the defendant below, was indicted for forgery. The indictment contained foul' counts, upon the second of which he was convicted. The second count was as follows: And the inquest aforesaid, on their oaths and affirmations aforesaid, do further present, that the said Henry Ream, at the county aforesaid, on the said thirtieth day of June, 1814, being an evil-disposed person, and devising, designing, and intending evil to the people of this Commonwealth, under the pretext of examining the enrollments, registers, and records in the…
1Opinion of the Court
Tilghman C. J.
Henry Ream was indicted and convicted of the offence of altering and defacing a book of record or *209registry, in the office of the surveyor general. The Court of Quarter Sessions of Dauphin county, before whom he was tried, sentenced him to undergo a servitude for two years in the public jail of Dauphin county, to be kept at hard labour, &c. The error assigned is, that the offence charged is not punishable by servitude at hard labour, &c. because it appears on the face of the indictment, that the book which was altered, or defaced, was not a record. The counsel for Ream. seem to…
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