Commonwealth v. Burford
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 74, April T., 1909, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Fayette Co., June T., 1907, No. 217, affirming judgment of justice of the peace in case of Commonwealth v, Isaac H. Burford. Appeal from conviction by a justice of the peace. Before Van Swearingen, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Error assigned was the judgment of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Porter, J.,
The defendant having, in a proceeding before a justice of the peace, been convicted of and fined for a willful and unlawful *203entry upon lands, upon which the owners had caused to be prominently posted printed notices that the said land was private property and warning all persons from trespassing thereon, under the provisions of the Act of assembly approved April 14, 1905, P. L. 169, entitled: “An Act making it unlawful to trespass upon land posted as private property, and providing the penalty therefor,” the court of quarter sessions allowed an appeal from said judgment.…
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