Commonwealth v. Hettig
Commonwealth v. Hettig
Opinion of the Court
The first two assignments are overruled for the reasons given by Judge Staples, specially presiding, in his opinion discharging the rule for new trial and for arrest of judgment. In addition to the reasons given by him in discussing the question sought to be raised by the third assignment, it should be noticed that the facts upon which the assignment is based do not appear of record, and the rule is that a motion in arrest of judgment must be based on some matter appearing on the face of the record: Delaware Division Canal Co. v. Commonwealth, 60 Pa. 367; Com. v. Duff, 7 Pa. Superior Ct. 415; Com. v. Zayrook, 30
The judgment is affirmed and the record is remitted to the court of quarter sessions of Luzerne county with direction that the judgment against each of the appellants, Stewart Hettig, Richard Thomas and James Moore, be fully carried into effect, and to that end it is ordered that each of said appellants forthwith appear in that court, and that he be by that court committed to serve and comply with such part of his sentence as had not been performed at the time this appeal was made a supersedeas.
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- Election law — Criminal law — Conspiracy—Election officers. 1. Election officers may be indicted as individuals for a conspiracy to defraud as election officers, either by not counting the votes properly, or by adding names to the voters’ list, or by making a false return. Jury — Challenge—Criminal law. 2. Where in a criminal case the commonwealth passes a juror under a wrong impression as to his name, and thereafter before the defendant has taken any initiative as to a challenge, the trial judge permits the commonwealth to reconsider the passing of the juror and to exercise the right to challenge, such action of the court cannot be used as a basis for assignment of error on an appeal from a conviction of the defendant. Criminal law — Arrest of judgment — Record—Assignment of error. 3. An assignment of error from a refusal of a motion for arrest of judgment in a criminal case, will not be considered unless it is based on some matter appearing on the face of the record.