Sampson v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the Quarter Sessions of Cumberland county. This was an indictment against Frederick Boyer and John Sampson for arson, the former as principal and the latter as accessary before the fact. The first count charged Frederick Boyer with feloniously burning the barn of Richard C. Woods, the same having hay and grain therein, contrary to the Act of Assembly, and against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth.
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ERROR to the Quarter Sessions of Cumberland county. This was an indictment against Frederick Boyer and John Sampson for arson, the former as principal and the latter as accessary before the fact. The first count charged Frederick Boyer with feloniously burning the barn of Richard C. Woods, the same having hay and grain therein, contrary to the Act of Assembly, and against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth. The second count was in the same form, but charged the defendant with burning a barn, described in all particulars as the first, except that it was called the property of Nathan…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
The plaintiff in error, by his counsel, has assigned seven errors: 1. That the court erred in not allowing each of the defendants twenty peremptory challenges. It is a sufficient answer *387to this error to say, that the record does not show that it exists in point of fact.
5. That the court erred in trying the plaintiff in error as accessary before the fact, with the party charged as principal. The récord shows that they appeared, pleaded and were tried together, without objection. But even if they had, authority is not wanting to show that the…
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