Commonwealth v. Eichelberger
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR TO THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS OF LEHIGH COUNTY. Nos. 245 and 246 January Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 61 January Term 1886. On November 8,1886, an indictment was found charging Samuel K. Eichelberger with the larceny of a promissory note, the property of the Coopersburg Savings Bank, dated April 19, 1886, for $1,600, payable at ninety days to the order of John Eichelberger and indorsed by John Eichelberger.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS OF LEHIGH COUNTY. Nos. 245 and 246 January Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 61 January Term 1886. On November 8,1886, an indictment was found charging Samuel K. Eichelberger with the larceny of a promissory note, the property of the Coopersburg Savings Bank, dated April 19, 1886, for $1,600, payable at ninety days to the order of John Eichelberger and indorsed by John Eichelberger. At the trial on November 10,1886, after the case was closed on the evidence, the court, Albright, P. J., charged the jury: In a criminal case the jury are the judges of…
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*263Opinion,
Mr. Justice Paxson :
The defendant was indicted for larceny. The jury found a special verdict, from which we learn that the Coopersburg Savings Bank held his promissory note, indorsed by John Eichelberger, for the sum of sixteen hundred dollars; that on July 21,1886, he called at said bank to renew the note; that he paid the discount thereon for another period of ninety days, viz.: 125.07; that he obtained his said note of sixteen hundred dollars by giving the cashier a new note for sixteen dollars with the same indorser; that when the cashier received the note for sixteen dollars, he…
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