Com. of Pa. v. Fahey

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

Appellant was indicted for embracery, in unlawfully attempting to corrupt and influence three named persons who had been summoned as jurors in the court of quarter sessions of Allegheny County, as to certain criminal prosecutions pending in said court in which Thomas Dolan, Thomas Goslin and Thomas Coyne had been charged with (1) violation of the liquor laws and (2) keeping a gambling house. There were three counts in the indictment, one for each juror attempted to be corruptly influenced. He was convicted generally.

Two main questions are raised by the appeal.(1)…