Commonwealth v. Donnelly
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 249, Oct. T., 1908, by ■defendants, from judgment of Q. S. Phila. Co., Feb. T., 1908, No. 288, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. William A. Donnelly et al. Indictment for conspiracy. Before Wiltbank, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Verdict of guilty, upon which judgment of sentence was passed. On a rule for a new trial Wiltbank, J., filed the following opinion: This was an indictment for conspiracy.
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Appeal, No. 249, Oct. T., 1908, by ■defendants, from judgment of Q. S. Phila. Co., Feb. T., 1908, No. 288, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. William A. Donnelly et al. Indictment for conspiracy. Before Wiltbank, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Verdict of guilty, upon which judgment of sentence was passed. On a rule for a new trial Wiltbank, J., filed the following opinion: This was an indictment for conspiracy. Ten defendants appeared for trial. Of these the bill was submitted as to four, to wit: William S. Darnell, Mahlon Van Booskirk, Howard W.…
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Morrison, J.,
This is an appeal of William A. Donnelly from a conviction and sentence on a charge of a conspiracy to cheat and defraud. The indictment charged two of the defendants, Darnell and Van Booskirk, as officers of two corporations, the Pennsylvania Graphite Company and the United States Graphite Company, and the remaining ten defendants (two of whom, Hess and Welsh, were not at the trial), as officers of the United States Graphite Company, of conspiring together to cheat and defraud the United States Graphite Company and its stockholders, by means of fraudulently procuring…
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