Commonwealth v. Wilson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 336, Jan. T., 1919, by defendant, from judgment of Superior Ct., Oct. T., 1919, No. 41, affirming judgment of Q. S. Lycoming Co., Sept. T., 1918, No. 47, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Frank I. Wilson. Appeal from judgment of Superior Court. The Superior Court affirmed the judgment of the court of quarter sessions. Defendant appealed. Error assigned was the judgment of the Superior Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Brown,
In May and June, 1918, Frank I. Wilson, a pawnbroker in the city of Williamsport, made loans to Genevieve M. Begbie, taking from her several pieces of jewelry as security for the repayment of the sums borrowed. He issued pawn tickets to her, a printed condition in each being that the pledged property should be redeemed within one month from the date of the loan, and. that, upon failure to so redeem, the pledgee might regard it as forfeited, with a right in him to sell it; but he admitted on the trial in the court below that he had agreed, at the request of…
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