Commonwealth v. Smith

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

These appellants were jointly charged with setting up and establishing a gambling house in the borough of Midland. They have taken separate appeals from the sentences imposed upon them respectively following their conviction. Their chief ground of complaint on appeal seems to be that the court below allowed testimony to be received that gambling had been carried on upon their premises on more than one date or time; contending that this was a violation of the well-established rule that evidence of a distinct crime, unconnected with that laid in the indictment, cannot be…