Brown v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Bradford county: Of January Term 1875, No. 132. Albert Brown was indicted at the September Term 1874, of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Bradford county, for the murder of Cora Greenleaf. The indictment contained two counts: one, in the ordinary form, for the murder of the deceased, and the other, for her murder in perpetrating a rape upon her. The caption of the indictment entitled it in the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
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Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Bradford county: Of January Term 1875, No. 132. Albert Brown was indicted at the September Term 1874, of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Bradford county, for the murder of Cora Greenleaf. The indictment contained two counts: one, in the ordinary form, for the murder of the deceased, and the other, for her murder in perpetrating a rape upon her. The caption of the indictment entitled it in the Court of Oyer and Terminer. The venire for the grand jury, issued out of the Quarter Sessions; the indictment was not certified into the Court of Oyer and…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Agnew
This case has been presented with much ability by the counsel of the prisoner, who have spared no labor or pains in performing their whole duty to a client whom they were appointed to defend, without hope of reward, other than that which attends a consciousness of duty well performed. The prisoner, miserable in severable senses, has been convicted, on a full and fair trial, of a most revolting crime; yet, owing to the mixed system of criminal proceedings in this state, and the want of skill, or of care, in the double office filled by a single clerk, we are perplexed with errors of procedure…
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