Commonwealth v. Thompson
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 19, March T., 1911, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Dauphin Co., June T., 1910, No. 76, on verdict of guilty, in case of Commonwealth v. Andrew Thompson. Indictment for larceny. Before Ktjnkel, P. J. The court charged in part as follows: The defendant is charged with larceny of $14.75, the property of the prosecutor.
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Appeal, No. 19, March T., 1911, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Dauphin Co., June T., 1910, No. 76, on verdict of guilty, in case of Commonwealth v. Andrew Thompson. Indictment for larceny. Before Ktjnkel, P. J. The court charged in part as follows: The defendant is charged with larceny of $14.75, the property of the prosecutor. The prosecutor testifies that in changing his clothes in the room where his locker was at the Lochiel hotel, and where he was employed, he left his money lying somewhere in the room, having forgotten to put it in his pocket after he changed his clothes. The money…
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Orlady, J.,
The defendant was charged with the larceny of “the sum of fourteen dollars, lawful money of the United States, the notes and coins composing said sum, being to the inquest aforesaid as yet unknown, altogether of the value of $14.00 of the goods and chattels, moneys and properties of Casper Jackson.” This description is challenged as being so uncertain and indefinite that the indictment should have been quashed on the motion of the defendant.
Difficulties sometime occur in giving an accurate and specific description of money stolen from the person, and the inquest in this…
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- Williams v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1880
- Commonwealth v. MillerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1906
- Commonwealth ex rel. v. JohnstonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1902
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- Commonwealth v. DoolittleFayette County Court of Quarter Sessions · 1921