Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. O'Malley
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 12, 1923No. Appeal, 110PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Henderson, J.,
The defendant was convicted of fortune telling under the Act of April 8, 1861, P. L. 270. The prosecution was begun by a complaint before a police magistrate on October 6, 1921. The same day a warrant was issued to three police women. The defendant was arrested October 14, 1921, and at a hearing on the following day was held to the quarter sessions under bail. Three grounds of complaint are suggested in the assignments: (A) A refusal of the court to quash the indictment; (B) The admission in evidence of articles alleged to have been taken from the defendant at the time…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Weeks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Adams v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
- Shields v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1893
- Gindrat v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1891
- State v. PomeroySupreme Court of Missouri · 1895
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Commonwealth v. GockleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1963
- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Spencer v. AsheSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1950
- Commonwealth v. AdamsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1954
- Commonwealth v. SnyderSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1936
- Commonwealth v. AbelSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1924
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