Commonwealth v. House
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 10, Oct. T., 1909, by defendant, from judgment of Superior Court April T., 1908, No. 17, affirming judgment of O. & T. Westmoreland Co., Feb. T., 1907, No. 12, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. F. R. House. Appeal from Superior Court. See 36 Pa.
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Appeal, No. 10, Oct. T., 1909, by defendant, from judgment of Superior Court April T., 1908, No. 17, affirming judgment of O. & T. Westmoreland Co., Feb. T., 1907, No. 12, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. F. R. House. Appeal from Superior Court. See 36 Pa. Superior Ct. 363. At the trial in the common pleas when Emma Byers was on the stand the following offer was made: Counsel for the commonwealth offers to prove by this witness that the defendant in this case attempted to assault her, or assaulted her on the porch of the house at the corner of East. Pittsburg street and Alwine…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Fell,
The prosecutrix was assaulted on St. Clair street in Greens-burg, a few minutes after six o’clock on November 15, 1906, by a man who stepped in front of her on the sidewalk and cut her with a knife. It was dark; the nearest electric light was 150 or 200 feet distant, and she saw only the lower part of the face and the' overcoat of her assailant, who after the assault left her and walked rapidly across the street. A few feet from the place of the assault she was met by James Reed, a mail carrier, who while on a cross street had heard her scream and reached the corner…
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