Commonwealth v. Stahl
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 19, March T., 1896, by defendant, from judgment and sentence of O. & T., Cumberland Co., Sept. T., 1895, No. 6. Indictment for larceny and receiving stolen goods. The indictment in its first count charged defendants, with stealing wheat from one Walter Stuart. The second count was against both defendants for receiving stolen wheat known to have been stolen from the said Walter Stuart. Waters pleaded guilty and Stahl pleaded not guilty.
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Appeal, No. 19, March T., 1896, by defendant, from judgment and sentence of O. & T., Cumberland Co., Sept. T., 1895, No. 6. Indictment for larceny and receiving stolen goods. The indictment in its first count charged defendants, with stealing wheat from one Walter Stuart. The second count was against both defendants for receiving stolen wheat known to have been stolen from the said Walter Stuart. Waters pleaded guilty and Stahl pleaded not guilty. The jury was sworn to try the issue between -Commonwealth and Stahl, and found a verdict of guilty. The defendant Stahl moved in arrest of…
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Opinion by
Wickham, J.,
The appellant in this case was indicted for the offenses of larceny and receiving stolen goods. The first count of the indictment alleges that he and one Edward Waters, on the 23d day of May, 1895, stole ten bushels of wheat, of the value of $7.00 being the property of Walter Stuart. The second charges that the same parties, on the same day, feloniously, etc., did receive ten bushels of wheat of the value of seyen dollars, the property of Walter Stuart, knowing the same to have been stolen. Waters pleaded guilty to the indictment. The jury rendered a general verdict of…
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- Hazen v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1854
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