Haines v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia county: Of January Terra 1881, No. 263. Indictment against Charles C. Ilaines, William F. Miskey, Jr., and Henry C. Clement, for conspiracy.
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Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia county: Of January Terra 1881, No. 263. Indictment against Charles C. Ilaines, William F. Miskey, Jr., and Henry C. Clement, for conspiracy. The indictment came on for trial February 3d 1881, before Finletter, J., and a jury, and a verdict of guilty was rendered February 9th 1881. A motion for a new trial and in arrest of judgment was overruled by the court, and on March 5th 1881, the defendants were sentenced each to pay a fine of $500, and to undergo imprisonment in solitary confinement, at labor, in the state penitentiary for the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
For reasons given at length in the opinion of the Chief Justice, 3 Outerbridge 410, the plaintiffs in error failed to obtain bills of exception to support the numerous assignments of error on which they intended to rely for a reversal of the judgment in this case. In the absence of the exceptions referred to in their application for the special writ under the Statute of Westminster, there is nothing in the record before us, on which to base any of the specifications except, perhaps the first. This fact was virtually conceded by the learned counsel, and hence their oral argument was directed…
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