Commonwealth v. Barrett
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 4, Oct. T., 1904, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Lehigh Co., Sept. T., 1904, No. 52, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Dennis Barrett. Indictment for larceny. Before Trexler, P. J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. At the trial the court refused binding instructions for defendant. Verdict of guilty upon which judgment of sentence was passed. Error assigned was refusal of binding instructions for defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Porter, J.,
The appellant was tried and convicted upon an indictment containing one count, charging, in the common-law form, larceny of “twenty-five dollars current money of the United States of America, a further description thereof to this grand inquest is as yet unknown, of the value of twenty-five dollars of the goods and chattels, moneys and property of Frank C. Wolfe.” The testimony offered by the commonwealth in support of this indictment, if true, established the following facts :
*114Wolfe was indebted to the defendant in the sura of $28.00, and at the same time owed William…
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