Commonwealth v. Llewellyn
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 14, Jan. T., 1900, by-plaintiff, in suit of Commonwealth against George J. Llewellyn and William Drury, from judgment of Q. S. Luzerne County, June Sess., 1896, No. 166, finding defendants not guilty. Opinion by W. D. Pobteb, J. Indictment for maintaining a nuisance in the borough of West Pittston.
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Appeal, No. 14, Jan. T., 1900, by-plaintiff, in suit of Commonwealth against George J. Llewellyn and William Drury, from judgment of Q. S. Luzerne County, June Sess., 1896, No. 166, finding defendants not guilty. Opinion by W. D. Pobteb, J. Indictment for maintaining a nuisance in the borough of West Pittston. It appears from the record that the nuisance complained of was the obstruction by defendants of a certain alley in the borough of West Pittston by building within the lines of the alley certain structures named' in the indictment. There was evidence tending to show that the alley had…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
W. D. Portee, J.,
The defendants were indicted for maintaining a public nuisance, by the erection of buildings upon the line of an alleged public alley, in the borough of West Pittston. The ruling of the court which is the subject of the first assignment of error was an absolute denial of the right of the commonwealth to *218stand aside jurors in empaneling the jury for the trial of this cause. The right of the commonwealth to stand aside a juror has ceased to be an open question in Pennsylvania; and this right rests upon the same foundation whether the trial is for a misdemeanor or a…
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