Commonwealth v. Lewis

Citations

• 29 Pa. Super. 282
• 1905 Pa. Super. LEXIS 312

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Taw-Sentence — County jail — Penitentiary—Obtaining property by false pretense.</p> <p>Upon a conviction for obtaining property by false pretense the statutory punishment is simple imprisonment, and therefore the legal place of confinement is the county jail.</p> <p>In such a case if the court of quarter sessions sentences the prisoner to confinement in the penitentiary, the judgment will be reversed on the appeal of the commonwealth and the record remitted with direction “to proceed to sentence defendant anew in due order and according to law.”</p>