Commonwealth v. Clarkson

On the conclusion of the argument of the counsel m this case, on the 12th July, 1845, the Recorder remarked in substance, as follows:

The questions involved in this case, as well as the request of the defendant’s counsel, carefully to consider them, have induced me to put in writing the reasons on which the judgment about to be made, is founded.

On the 2d of July last, Charles Clarkson went to the broker’s office of George Manley and asked the loan of some money, on a draft drawn by him, on his brother at Schuylkill Haven. For reasons, sufficient for the government of Mr. Manley’s judgment, he…