Commonwealth v. Boulos

Citations

• 35 Pa. Super. 102
• 1907 Pa. Super. LEXIS 216

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Conspiracy—Sunday law.</p> <p>On an indictment for .a conspiracy to obstruct and defeat the laws relating to Sunday labor, a conviction may be sustained where it appears that the defendant for several successive Sundays kept open his store on Sunday, and thereafter paid the fines imposed upon himself and clerks, and that subsequently he secured the assistance of two strange and unknown persons who came to his establishment on Saturday night, and after assisting in the business on Sunday disappeared shortly after midnight leaving no traces of their whereabouts.</p> <p>The declarations of a person indicted for conspiracy may be admitted against him as evidence of the conspiracy although the fact of the conspiracy has not been shown by other evidence, and no offer made to show it, if it appears that the case is not pressed against the other defendants.</p>