Commonwealth v. Mitchell

Citations

• 6 Pa. Super. 369
• 1898 Pa. Super. LEXIS 165

Syllabus

<p>Criminal laxo — Refusal of new trial — Adequacy of charge.</p> <p>The refusal to*grant a new trial in a criminal case is not error where on the whole evidence, if believed, no reasonable doubt is raised as to the defendant’s guilt and where the trial was conducted with great care, the attention of thequry directed to the measure of proof necessary and to the presumption of innocence, and where the evidence was submitted in a clear and impartial manner.</p> <p>Grimixial laxo — Evidence of letters, etc., indicating an expected meeting.</p> <p>Where the crime of abortion is charged as incident to the meeting of two people, which is admitted to have taken place, evidence is admissible as tending to prove a step in the commonwealth’s case of the fact that deceased addressed and mailed a letter to defendant, and subsequently wired him to meet her on a certain train; such evidence being admissible as tending to prove that these two persons had been in communication prior to the subsequent meeting on the train designated in the telegram.</p>