Commonwealth v. Jester

Citations

• 63 Pa. Super. 291
• 1916 Pa. Super. LEXIS 153

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Appeals — Discretion of court — ,Trial without counsel — Constitutional law — Trial by jury.</p> <p>An appeal by a prisoner in a criminal ease from an order refusing a new trial, will not be sustained, where it appears that the prisoner was placed on trial in the absence of his counsel, but the record does not show that the court below abused its legal discretion either at the trial, or in refusing a second trial, or that the defendant’s rights were not fully safeguarded by the trial judge.</p>