Commonwealth v. Brown
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, Nos. 77, 78, 79 and 80, Oct. Term, 1903, by defendants, from judgment of Q. S. Phila. Co., June T., 1902, Nos. 402, 405-425, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. B. Frank Brown, Joseph Travis, Thomas F. G. Seixas and David D. Johnson. Indictment for conspiracy.
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Appeal, Nos. 77, 78, 79 and 80, Oct. Term, 1903, by defendants, from judgment of Q. S. Phila. Co., June T., 1902, Nos. 402, 405-425, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. B. Frank Brown, Joseph Travis, Thomas F. G. Seixas and David D. Johnson. Indictment for conspiracy. Before Davis, J. The indictment was as follows: That heretofore, to wit: on the nineteenth of April, in the year of our Lord, 1902, B. Frank Brown, Joseph Travis, Thomas F. G. Seixas, Albert W. Weider, and William H. Sivel, were directors of the public schools of the twenty-eighth ward of the city of Philadelphia,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
The appellants were jointly indicted, tried and convicted. They took separate appeals, but presented them upon the argument as if they had appealed jointly. This was proper, as the questions raised upon the several appeals are the same.
The indictment charged that three of the defendants, Brown, Travis and Seixas were “ directors of the public schools of the twenty-eighth ward of the city of Philadelphia ” and that in *488the conduct and discharge of said offices it was their duty, without pay or emolument for their services in so doing, in conjunction with the other…
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