Commonwealth v. Hazlett
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 111, April T., 1900, by defendant, in suit,of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania against Samuel Hazlett, from sentence of Q. S. Washington County, Feb. Sess. 1899, No. 84, on verdict of guilty.
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Appeal, No. 111, April T., 1900, by defendant, in suit,of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania against Samuel Hazlett, from sentence of Q. S. Washington County, Feb. Sess. 1899, No. 84, on verdict of guilty. Opinion by Rice, P. J. Indictment for embezzlement as a banker under the provisions of the act of the assembly approved May 9, 1889, P. L. 145. It appears from the record that defendant was indicted for embezzlement under the act of 1889. Verdict of guilty found and sentence on the verdict to pay a fine of $777.08, to undergo imprisonment in the Western Penitentiary for a period of one year and…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
1. We were required in the case of Commonwealth v. Rockafellow, 3 Pa. Superior. Ct. 588, to decide, whether a former conviction on an indictment drawn under the Act of. May 9, 1889, P. L. 145, was a bar to a subsequent prosecution for having, under the same circumstances, and with the same knowledge of insolvency, as in the former case, and on the same day, received from another person a deposit of money. It was held in a carefully considered opinion by our Brother Smith that the indictments charged two distinct offenses and that the plea, autrefois convict, could not be…
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