Commonwealth v. Bolish

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

Defendant was arrested in July 1938 on the suspicion that he was guilty of a robbery committed in Lackawanna County about two months before his arrest. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced. The order of the trial court overruling defendant’s demurrer to the evidence and the refusal of a new trial are assigned as error. That a robbery was committed is conceded and the issue on the trial of the defendant was one of identity.

The prosecutor Steven Walsh was employed by the McGinley Coal Company as weighmaster working from five in the evening to seven in the morning. He worked…