Commonwealth of Pa. v. Hinsdale

Opinion by

Linn, J.,

The order entered in this anomalous proceeding was doubtless made through some inadvertence; it cannot be sustained. At May term, 1923, in the Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia County, Hinsdale, the appellee, was indicted on a charge of bribing a member of the Pennsylvania state police, by paying him $2,00.0 to liberate eight prisoners then in his custody, arrested for alleged unlawful possession and transportation of intoxicating liquor; at January term, 1924, Hinsdale was tried on the charge of bribery based on that payment and was acquitted. In May, 1924, he instituted…