Commonwealth v. Billingsley

Opinion by

Arnold, J.,

Defendant appeals from a conviction on an indictment charging him with the attempt “to . . . suborn one Leroy C. House to commit . . . perjury, as a witness, in a . . . civil proceeding [an action of trespass for personal injuries, fully identified] ... in the Court of Common Pleas in and for Allegheny County, . . In the action of trespass, the judicial proceeding in volved, the plaintiff alleged that she was a business invitee in the restaurant of the defendant on April 3, 1941, and that something on the floor caused her foot to slip, whereby she fell and was injured.

The…