Commonwealth v. Williams
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 22, March T., 1913, by defendant, from order of Q. S. April T., 1911, No. 75, refusing to quash indictment in case of Commonwealth v. Charles F. Williams. Motion to quash indictment. Wanner, J., filed the following opinion: The defendant is charged in this indictment with having burned his own barn with intent to cheat and defraud certain insurance companies, by whom it was then insured.
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Appeal, No. 22, March T., 1913, by defendant, from order of Q. S. April T., 1911, No. 75, refusing to quash indictment in case of Commonwealth v. Charles F. Williams. Motion to quash indictment. Wanner, J., filed the following opinion: The defendant is charged in this indictment with having burned his own barn with intent to cheat and defraud certain insurance companies, by whom it was then insured. The motion to quash this bill is not based upon any misconduct of the grand jury, or upon any legal defect in the form or substance of the bill itself, but chiefly upon the fact that the justice…
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Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
This case grew out of proceedings under the Act of April 17, 1869, P. L. 74, entitled, “An Act to provide a mode of inquiring into fires.” The jury of three, appointed in accordance with the provisions of sec. 2 of the act, having found and reported, as provided in sec. 3, that reasonable cause existed for believing that the defendant was accessory to the willful setting fire to the building in question, the justice holding the inquest issued a warrant, in accordance with the direction of the latter section, for the arrest of the defendant. By virtue of this warrant he…
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