Commonwealth v. Edwards
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY T. A. LONG, PROSECUTOR, PROM THE COURT OE QUARTER SESSIONS OE LUZERNE COUNTY. No. 140 July Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 6 April Term 1889, Q. S. On April 4, 1889, the grand jury returned as a true bill an indictment charging James N. Edwards, William It. Farrell and “ divers other persons whose names are to the jurors unknown,” with a conspiracy to set fire to certain dwellings belonging to T. A. Long and Cory Allen.
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APPEAL BY T. A. LONG, PROSECUTOR, PROM THE COURT OE QUARTER SESSIONS OE LUZERNE COUNTY. No. 140 July Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 6 April Term 1889, Q. S. On April 4, 1889, the grand jury returned as a true bill an indictment charging James N. Edwards, William It. Farrell and “ divers other persons whose names are to the jurors unknown,” with a conspiracy to set fire to certain dwellings belonging to T. A. Long and Cory Allen. T. A. Long was named on the bill as the prosecutor. On May 7, 1889, the defendant Farrell entered a plea of guilty. The same day, the defendant Edwards pleaded…
1Opinion of the Court
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Mk. Justice McCollum:
The indictment in this case charged that James N. Edwards, William R. Farrell, and divers other persons, whose names were to the jurors unknown, falsely and maliciously conspired and agreed to set fire to certain dwellings in Luzerne county belonging to T. A. Long and Cory Allen. When the case was called for trial, on 7, 1889, a plea of guilty was entered by Farrell, and a plea of not guilty by Edwards. On the issue thus joined the cause was tried the same day, and the verdict of the jury was: “We find the defendant, James N. Edwards, not guilty, and that the…
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