Swan v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Quarter Sessions of Armstrong county : Of October and November'Term 1883, No. 211. Indictment of Charles Swan and F. E. Lynch for burglary and larceny. Plea, not guilty. Upon the trial, before Reale, P. J., the following facts appeared : On the night of September 13th 1882, the store of H. Bush & Son, in Kittanning township, was broken into and the contents of the safe were carried away.
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Error to the Quarter Sessions of Armstrong county : Of October and November'Term 1883, No. 211. Indictment of Charles Swan and F. E. Lynch for burglary and larceny. Plea, not guilty. Upon the trial, before Reale, P. J., the following facts appeared : On the night of September 13th 1882, the store of H. Bush & Son, in Kittanning township, was broken into and the contents of the safe were carried away. About the same time the house of Franklin Reynolds, in the same township, was robbed. Lynch was indicted for the latter offence prior to the present trial, and pleaded guilty. There was some…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
*220We are of opinion that there was error in the refusal of the court to limit the effect of the testimony of Eoss Eeynolds, Esq., and in allowing it to go to the jury to affect Charles Swan, the plaintiff in error.
Testimony had been received showing the perpetration of other similar crimes in the vicinity, at and. about the same time Lynch had plead guilty to one of these, the Eeynold’s robbery, and the testimony was admitted “ to throw what light ” the jury might “ discover from it, of the parties charged, composing or being a' part of an organization, banded together for the purpose of…
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