The Penal Code of Pennsylvania, 2. köideR. Welsh & Company, 1884 |
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Page 589
... Common Pleas of any county , may hold Court of Oyer and Terminer , Quarter Sessions and Orphans ' Courts in absence of the associate judges , and addi- tional law judges may do the same in absence of the president judge ,. • VIII . When ...
... Common Pleas of any county , may hold Court of Oyer and Terminer , Quarter Sessions and Orphans ' Courts in absence of the associate judges , and addi- tional law judges may do the same in absence of the president judge ,. • VIII . When ...
Page 610
... Common Pleas in the county where the said per- son may be found , to issue his warrant , authorizing and requiring the sheriff of the said county to take the said person and conduct him to the proper county , where the said felony is ...
... Common Pleas in the county where the said per- son may be found , to issue his warrant , authorizing and requiring the sheriff of the said county to take the said person and conduct him to the proper county , where the said felony is ...
Page 615
... Common Pleas . Persons accused , as aforesaid , of arson , rape , mayhem , sodomy , buggery , robbery or burglary , shall only be bailable by the Supreme Court , the Court of Common Pleas , or any of the judges thereof , or a mayor or ...
... Common Pleas . Persons accused , as aforesaid , of arson , rape , mayhem , sodomy , buggery , robbery or burglary , shall only be bailable by the Supreme Court , the Court of Common Pleas , or any of the judges thereof , or a mayor or ...
Page 616
... Common Pleas of Westmoreland County , 1838 . Per Curiam .- " Justices of the peace are forbidden to bail prisoners charged with horse - stealing on the direct testimony of a witness ; that is , as we under- stand it , by a positive oath ...
... Common Pleas of Westmoreland County , 1838 . Per Curiam .- " Justices of the peace are forbidden to bail prisoners charged with horse - stealing on the direct testimony of a witness ; that is , as we under- stand it , by a positive oath ...
Page 639
... Common Pleas of any county , may hold Court of Oyer and Terminer , Quarter Sessions and Orphans ' Courts in absence of the associate judges , and additional law judges may do the same in ab- XVIII . sence of the president judge . VIII ...
... Common Pleas of any county , may hold Court of Oyer and Terminer , Quarter Sessions and Orphans ' Courts in absence of the associate judges , and additional law judges may do the same in ab- XVIII . sence of the president judge . VIII ...
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Popular passages
Page 708 - ... person was insane at the time of the commission of such offence, and such person shall be acquitted, the jury shall be required to find specially whether such person was insane at the time of the commission of such offence, and to declare whether such person was acquitted by them on account of such insanity...
Page 631 - In any indictment for murder or manslaughter, or for being an accessory to any murder or manslaughter, it shall not be necessary to set forth the manner in which, or the means by which, the death of the deceased was caused, but it shall be sufficient in any indictment for murder to charge that the defendant did feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, kill and murder the deceased, and it shall be sufficient in any indictment for manslaughter to charge that the defendant did feloniously...
Page 724 - in all cases where a remedy is provided, or duty enjoined, or anything directed to be done by any act or acts of assembly of this commonwealth, the directions of the said acts shall be strictly pursued...
Page 742 - If any person guilty of or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor, in any state,' shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall, upon demand of the governor or executive power of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, and removed to the state having jurisdiction of his offence.
Page 733 - Any one of the judges of the said thirty-eighth judicial district shall have full power and authority to hold the courts of oyer and terminer and general jail delivery and quarter sessions of the peace...
Page 673 - ... and thereupon such person shall be liable to be punished in the same manner as if he had been convicted upon an indictment for...
Page 669 - ... common law or by virtue of any Statute or Statutes made or to be made, the person so counselling, procuring, or commanding, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and may be indicted and convicted either as an accessory before the fact...
Page 708 - ... to be kept in strict custody in such place and in such manner as to the court shall seem fit, until his Majesty's pleasure shall be known...
Page 744 - ... recognizance to appear, or other court having jurisdiction of the cause; and if any other person or persons shall knowingly contrary to this act recommit or imprison, or knowingly procure or cause to be recommitted or imprisoned, for the same offence or...
Page 866 - To make one criminal act evidence of another, a connection between them must have existed in the mind of the actor, linking them together for some purpose he intended to accomplish; or it must be necessary to identify the person of the actor, by a connection which shows that he who committed the one must have done the other.