White v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In Error. THIS was a writ of error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Cumberland county. The plaintiff in error had been convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and had been sentenced to undergo an imprisonment at hard labour and solitary confinement, in the gaol and penitentiary house of Philadelphia, for the space of ten years, and for one year, part of said time, to be placed and kept in the solitary cells thereof, on low and coarse diet, &c. that the court below had no…
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In Error. THIS was a writ of error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Cumberland county. The plaintiff in error had been convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and had been sentenced to undergo an imprisonment at hard labour and solitary confinement, in the gaol and penitentiary house of Philadelphia, for the space of ten years, and for one year, part of said time, to be placed and kept in the solitary cells thereof, on low and coarse diet, &c. that the court below had no power to order his confinement in the solitary cells, on low and coarse diet, for the crime of voluntary manslaughter.
1Opinion of the CourtTilghman C., J.
Edward White was convicted of voluntary, manslaughter in the Court of Oyer and .Terminer for the county of Cumberland. The judgment of the court was “that he should undergo‘an imprisonment at hard labour and “ solitary confinement in the gaol and penitentiary house of “ Philadelphia, for the space of ten years, and for one year, *140'•'■part of said time, be placed and kept in the solitary celts “ thereof on low and coarse diet,” &c.
In the fourth, fifth, and sixth sections of the act “ for the “better preventing of crimes,” &c. passed.the 22d April, 1/94, the punishment of certain crimes therein…
2Cited by1 opinion
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