Commonwealth v. Lennon

Opinion by

Parker, J.,

The defendant was indicted and convicted on four bills, including one for assault and battery with an offensive weapon and with an intent to rob. The charges grew out of an armed hold-up in December, 1934, by a band of desperadoes, and the robbery of a pay roll of the Philadelphia Electric Company, amounting to $46,000. The appellant complains of that part of the instructions of the trial judge which dealt with reasonable doubt, and of the admission of a typewritten paper which it is alleged was not properly proved.(1) In charging the jury the learned trial judge said: “A…