Commonwealth v. Martin
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 101, April T., 1908, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Washington Co., Aug. T., 1907, No. 60, on verdict of not guilty but directing costs to be divided in case of Commonwealth v. Joseph W. Martin. Indictment for fraudulently wearing the emblem of a secret society.
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Appeal, No. 101, April T., 1908, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Washington Co., Aug. T., 1907, No. 60, on verdict of not guilty but directing costs to be divided in case of Commonwealth v. Joseph W. Martin. Indictment for fraudulently wearing the emblem of a secret society. The indictment was as follows: “The grand inquest of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, now inquiring in and for the body of the county of Washington, upon their oaths and solemn affirmations respectively do present: “That Joseph W. Martin, late of the county, aforesaid, yeoman, on the twenty-fourth day of May, in the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
As the assignments of error do not relate to any ruling upon a question of evidence or to any instruction which the court gave or declined to give to the jury, and as neither the evidence nor the charge of the court is printed in the appellant’s paper-book, any allusion by us to the merits of the case is not required and would be out of place. We make this remark, because both in the appellant’s history of the case and in the appellee’s counter history we find reference to the relation *245of the defendant and of the lodge of which he is said to be a member to the Masonic…
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