Commonwealth v. Cancelliere Cancelliere

Peb Curiam,

The defendants were convicted of assault and battery. Motions in arrest of judgment and for a new trial were made on the ground that the verdict was contrary to law and against the weight of the evidence. Afterwards, an additional reason was filed, stating that the stenographer’s notes which embodied the record in the case were lost and the defendants were thereby unable to properly perfect the record. The court refused the motions. Appeals were taken and the matter came before our court and we sent the record back in order that the lower court, if it thought proper, might grant…