Commonwealth v. Jermyn

Opinion by

Gawthrop, J.,

The indictment, found January 8, 1930, charged Edmund B. Jermyn, James Arigoni, James W. Henshaw, Harry J. Friend, Edward G. Miller, and other persons unknown to the grand jury, with conspiring to set up and establish in the City of Scranton, gambling devices — slot machines — in violation of Sections 55 and 56 of the Act of March 13, 1860, P. L. 322, and its supplements. Jermyn was, at the time of the commission of the offense charged, the mayor of the City of Scranton; Arigoni was the director of public safety of the city; Henshaw was the superintendent of police of…