Commonwealth v. Salawich

Citations

• 28 Pa. Super. 330
• 1905 Pa. Super. LEXIS 195

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Charge—Review.</p> <p>A trial judge in a criminal case cannot be convicted of error because he called the attention of the jury to the character of the evidence necessary to convict the defendant under the indictment, but leaves it to the jury to determine whether or not the testimony of the witness is of the character indicated.</p> <p>A judgment in a criminal case will not be reversed because during the course of the trial, and in the presence of the jury, the trial judge called to the bar of the court a witness and bound him over to answer the charge of perjury.</p> <p>Criminal law — Locus in quo — Judicial notice.</p> <p>Where it is proven that a crime was committed in a city, the court will take judicial notice of the fact that the city was within the county named in the indictment.</p>