Brown v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Criminal Court of Schuylkill county: No. 78, to January Term 1873. * At April Term 1872 of the court below, the grand jury found a true bill against Joseph Brown for the murder of Daniel S. Kraemer.
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Error to the Criminal Court of Schuylkill county: No. 78, to January Term 1873. * At April Term 1872 of the court below, the grand jury found a true bill against Joseph Brown for the murder of Daniel S. Kraemer. On the 27th of May 1872, he challenged the array of jurors, “ for the reason that the sheriff and jury commissioners of Schuylkill county, at the time of the selecting and placing in the wheel the names of jurors, did not secure the jury-wheel in the manner required by law, they having failed to secure the said wheel by sealing the same with their respective seals, the said wheel…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, April 5th 1873, by
Read, C. J.
This is a writ of error to the Criminal Court of Schuylkill county, sued out under the Act of the 15th February 1870, upon the oath of the defendant, and brings, up the whole record.
The constitutionality and jurisdiction of this court have been finally settled in Commonwealth v. Green, 8 P. F. Smith 226, and in Commonwealth v. Hipple, 19 Id. 9, and its concurrent jurisdiction with the Courts of Quarter Sessions of the Peace and Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery of the County of Schuylkill, is fully recognised and…
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