Commonwealth v. Coyle
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 119, July T., 1893, by James Coyle, one of the defendants, from judgment of Q. S. Cumberland Co., on verdict for Com’ltb. Indictment for permitting cruelty to pauper. At the trial, before'’ Sadler, P. J., defendants moved the court to quash the entire bill of indictment on the ground that it alleged no offence indictable at common law or under any statute. The court denied the motion.
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Appeal, No. 119, July T., 1893, by James Coyle, one of the defendants, from judgment of Q. S. Cumberland Co., on verdict for Com’ltb. Indictment for permitting cruelty to pauper. At the trial, before'’ Sadler, P. J., defendants moved the court to quash the entire bill of indictment on the ground that it alleged no offence indictable at common law or under any statute. The court denied the motion. Bill sealed. [7, 8] The substance of the third count of the bill was that defendants had committed a misdemeanor in office by indenturing the pauper to a person residing without the limits of the…
1Opinion of the Court
COM. v. COYLE, APPELLANT.
Opinion by
Mr. Justice McCollum,
James Coyle, appellant, Michael Seavers and John H. Rhoads were jointly indicted and tried for neglect of their duty as directors of the poor and of the house of employment for Cumberland county. A verdict of guilty was rendered by the jury, sentence was suspended as to Seavers and Rhoads on their payment of one fourth of the costs, and Coyle was sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and three fourths of the costs. The pith of the complaint against them was that they neglected *42to discharge a duty which in their official capacity…
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