Hackett v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Oyer and Terminer of Potter county. An indictment was found in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Potter county, against Seymour Hackett for an attempt to commit a burglary.
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Error to the Oyer and Terminer of Potter county. An indictment was found in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Potter county, against Seymour Hackett for an attempt to commit a burglary. It was as follows:—■ Potter County, ss: The grand inquest of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, inquiring in and for the body of the county of Potter, upon their oaths and affirmations, respectively do present that Seymour Hackett, late of the county aforesaid, on the 24th day of June, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, in the night-time of the said day aforesaid, at the township of Roulet, in the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Burnside, J.
The conviction in this case was for an attempt to commit a burglary. The prisoner’s counsel moved in arrest of judgment. The motion was overruled. This writ of error was allowed by the chief justice.
Three errors have been assigned in this court on behalf of the plaintiff in error. No counsel appeared for the Commonwealth.
1st. It is alleged, that the court erred in denying the motion in arrest of judgment, for the reasons given. 2d. That the court erred in the sentence pronounced; and 3d, That the Oyer and Terminer had no jurisdiction.
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