Commonwealth v. Sadowsky

Opinion by

Gawthrop, J.,

The defendant was convicted on both counts of an indictment charging assault and battery and aggravated assault and battery. The assignments of error are to the charge of the court. The trouble out of which the case arose occurred on the property of the Davis Coal and Coke Company at Boswell, Somerset County, during the period of the coal strike. On June 12, 1922, the defendant was sitting on his porch. A deputy sheriff of the county asked him to accompany him to a house across the way where a number of men were congregated. The defendant went with the officer, who…