Campbell v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Oyer and Terminer of Payette county: Of October and November Term 1880, No. 209. On the 10th of August 1875, a store-house and out-houses belonging to Messrs. Sturgis and Burchinal, and a groceiy and dwelling-house belonging to E. T. Brownfield, situate in Smithfield, Eayette county, Pa., were, destroyed by fire. On the 18th of January 1879, information was made by Messrs.
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Error to the Oyer and Terminer of Payette county: Of October and November Term 1880, No. 209. On the 10th of August 1875, a store-house and out-houses belonging to Messrs. Sturgis and Burchinal, and a groceiy and dwelling-house belonging to E. T. Brownfield, situate in Smithfield, Eayette county, Pa., were, destroyed by fire. On the 18th of January 1879, information was made by Messrs. Sturgis and Burchinal charging the defendants, Benjamin Campbell, Patrick Mona-hon and Hananiah L. Worthington, with felonious arson in setting fire to those houses. On the 8th of March 1879, the defendants…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mercur
The plaintiffs in error were tried and convicted of arson. Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were made and overruled. Sentences were pronounced.
No exception was taken, no protest was made, to' the organization of the court, or to the legal qualification of any of its members. No error is assigned to any ruling of the court during the trial, nor to the form of'the sentences. The objection is now made in this court for the first time, that the two associate judges, not learned in the law, sat with the president judge, and participated in the trial and sentence.
*347It is not denied…
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