Commonwealth v. Coble

Citations

• 9 Pa. Super. 215
• 1899 Pa. Super. LEXIS 9

Syllabus

<p>Appeals — Jurisdiction, Superior Court — Error in charge where prisoner acquitted. *</p> <p>Where a prisoner has been acquitted by the jury of a criminal charge, the appellate court has no power or jurisdiction to examine an appeal to the rulings of the trial judge, and declare whether they were right or wrong. The importance of a question affords no justification but rather the reverse for the court’s advancing to meet it before it is required to do so by the duty imposed by law.</p>