Dougherty v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Writs of error and of certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions and Oyer and Terminer of Armstrong county: No. 144, 145, 146, 147, to October and November Term 1871. These writs brought up the proceedings on the trial of Daniel A. Dougherty, for the murder of Joseph Stinel. The record from the docket of the Oourt of Quarter Sessions showed that at the March Term 1871 of that court, No. 1, an indictment against Dougherty for the murder of Stinel was found a “ true bill.”
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Writs of error and of certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions and Oyer and Terminer of Armstrong county: No. 144, 145, 146, 147, to October and November Term 1871. These writs brought up the proceedings on the trial of Daniel A. Dougherty, for the murder of Joseph Stinel. The record from the docket of the Oourt of Quarter Sessions showed that at the March Term 1871 of that court, No. 1, an indictment against Dougherty for the murder of Stinel was found a “ true bill.” The defendant being in prison, a habeas corpus was issued from the Supreme Court, and on the 9th of March he entered into…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, January 9th 1872, b'y
Williams, J.
These writs bring up the records of the Court of Quarter Sessions and the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Armstrong county, showing the trial of the plaintiff in error for the murder of Joseph Stinel, of said county, on the 14th of October 1870; and his conviction of manslaughter, upon which he was sentenced to the payment of a fine of $50 to the Commonwealth, and to separate and solitary confinement at labor, in the Western Penitentiary, for four years and three months, to be computed from the date of the sentence.
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