Commonwealth v. Prezioso

Opinion by

IIirt, J.,

The defendant, with George Sarkis, Lucy Torchia and Joseph Torino, was charged with conducting a ‘numbers’ lottery. The three pleaded guilty to the charge; defendant alone stood trial. He was convicted and sentenced. As appellant, he contends that the evidence as a whole is not sufficient to warrant his conviction; he also charges trial errors in seeking a new trial.

Sarkis lived at 1219 Epiphany Street in Pittsburgh; Lucy Torchia, his sister-in-law, was a member of his family. Defendant lived two doors away at 1225 Epiphany Street in a house owned by him. Joseph Totino…