Commonwealth v. Salawich
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 6, Jan. T., 1906, by plaintiff, from judgment of Q. S. Luzerne Co., Sept. T., 1904, No. 621, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Steven Salawich. Indictment for keeping a bawdyhouse. Before Halsey, J. Verdict of guilty upon which judgment of sentence was passed..
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Appeal, No. 6, Jan. T., 1906, by plaintiff, from judgment of Q. S. Luzerne Co., Sept. T., 1904, No. 621, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Steven Salawich. Indictment for keeping a bawdyhouse. Before Halsey, J. Verdict of guilty upon which judgment of sentence was passed.. Errors assigned were in the following form : 1. The court erred in its charge in directing in strong and argumentative language the attention of the jury to the testimony and theory of the commonwealth without adverting at all to the defendant’s side of the case and to the entire exclusion of the defendant’s…
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Per Curiam,
We are unable to find in the charge of the court any error, as alleged by the plaintiff, in the manner in which the court submitted the facts to the jury. There was no summing up of the facts presented by the commonwealth and the attention of the jury was not called to them in any way that was unusual or objectionable. The attention of the jury was called to the character of the evidence necessary to convict the defendant under the indictment, but as to whether or not the testimony of the witnesses was of the character indicated was left to the jury entirely. .
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