Acker v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Lehigh county: Of July Term 1879, No. 27. Indictment of Charles Acker for robbery.
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Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Lehigh county: Of July Term 1879, No. 27. Indictment of Charles Acker for robbery. The following was the indictment: “ In the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery and Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the county of Lehigh : April Sessions 1879. Lehigh County ss. : The Grand Inquest of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, inquiring for the county of Lehigh, upon their oaths and affirmations, respectively do present, that Charles Acker, late of the said county, yeoman, on the 23d day of October A. D. 1878, at the county aforesaid, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The judgment of the Supreme Court was entered
2Per curiam
The eleventh section of the Criminal Procedure Act of March- 31st 1860, has provided that “ every indictment shall be deemed and adjudged sufficient and good in law, which charges the crime substantially in the language of the Act of Assembly, prohibiting the crime and prescribing the punishment if any such there be.” The language of the Criminal Code is, “ If any person shall rob another, or shall steal any property from the person of another, &c.” It is not necessary that all the circumstances which enter into the definition of robbery at common…
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