Commonwealth v. Boyer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
THE defendant was tried before TILGrnaAN C. J. ~md SMIm J. at a court of Oyer and Ternilner, holden by the Judges of the Supreme Court in the county of Philadelphia, in ~/anuary !80~, under the following indictment: "The grand "inquest, &c. &c. do present that .Z\Ticholas Boyer, late of the "county aforesaid, yeoman, on the first day of May in the year, "ofour Lord 1806, with force and arms at the county aforesaid "in a certain lane near the highway, in and upon one John…
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THE defendant was tried before TILGrnaAN C. J. ~md SMIm J. at a court of Oyer and Ternilner, holden by the Judges of the Supreme Court in the county of Philadelphia, in ~/anuary !80~, under the following indictment: "The grand "inquest, &c. &c. do present that .Z\Ticholas Boyer, late of the "county aforesaid, yeoman, on the first day of May in the year, "ofour Lord 1806, with force and arms at the county aforesaid "in a certain lane near the highway, in and upon one John "Dufey, in the peace of God and the commonwealth then "and there being, feloniously did make an assault, and him the "said…
1Opinion of the Court
Tiighman C. J.
The prisoner was indicted for the robbery' of John Duffey in a certain lane near the highway, of the following property viz. “ T wo ten dollar notes of the President “ directors and company of the bank of the United States; one “ ten dollar note of the President directors and company of the u bank of North America; one five dollar note of the President “ directors and company of the bank of Pennsylvania; and one “ three dollar note of the Philadelphia bank; being altogether “ of the value of thirty eight dollars of the goods and chattels of “ the said John Duffey.”
On the trial…
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