Commonwealth v. Rockafellow
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 43, Jan. T., 1897, by the commonwealth, from judgment of Q. S. Luzerne Co., Sept. Sess., 1893, No. 183, sustaining defendant’s plea of autrefois convict. Indictment for receiving money as a banker, with knowledge of insolvency. Before Edwards, J. Defendant pleaded antrefois convict. Plaintiff demurred to the plea and the court entered judgment for defendant on the demurrer. Error assigned was entry of judgment for defendant on the plea.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Smith, J.,
The defendant in the present case, a banker, carrying on a private bank in the city of Wilkes-Barre, was indicted, September 5, 1893, for having, on the 7th day of February, 1893, received from Anna Maria Meier, a depositor, $700, with knowledge “that he and the said bank were then and there insolvent.” On the trial November 19, 1896, he pleaded autrefois convict. As to the facts on which this plea was based, it was agreed by the district attorney and the defendant that on the 2d of June, 1893, the defendant was indicted for having, under the same circumstances and with…
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