Commonwealth of Pa. v. Scutack

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

This defendant and another man were indicted. The jury acquitted the other defendant and convicted this appellant of aggravated assault and battery.

On September 15,1931, the day of the primary election, the defendant, a candidate for reelection as con stable of the sixth ward of the Borough of Old Forge, Lackawanna County, went to the election booth in the first district of that ward, with a deputy constable and two other men, a few minutes before seven o ’clock in the morning. The defendant and his deputy were both in uniform and stated that they were investigating a…