Commonwealth v. Kephart
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 173, Oct. T., 1908, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Blair Co., Oct. T., 1907, No. 179, reversing judgment of justice of the peace in case of Commonwealth v. C. M. Kephart. Appeal from summary conviction. Before Bell, P. J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned was judgment reversing judgment of the justice of the peace.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Head, J.,
This case was argued with Com. v. Dougherty, ante, p. 338. The main questions involved in both cases were identical. It is unnecessary, therefore, to repeat here what was stated at some length in the opinion in the former case. For the reasons there given, we must affirm the judgment entered by the learned court below unless we are impelled to a different conclusion by a consideration of the single question raised in this case which did not appear in the former one.
In this case the commonwealth asserts that there is no law which allows an appeal to a defendant upon whom a…
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