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156 Pa. 147

Commonwealth v. Connors

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 19, 1893

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1893-07-19

Appeal, No. 317, Jan. T., 1893, by defendant, Wallie Connors, from judgment of O. and T. Northampton Co., June T., 1892, No. 35, on verdict for Commonwealth. Indictment for larceny of notes from bank. At the trial, before Reeder, J., there was evidence that defendant went into the Easton National Bank on July 21, 1892, and, while two of his confederates engaged the attention of the bank officer, slipped into the vault and stole a package of notes amounting to $4,000.

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Decided 1893-07-19

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Per Curiam,

¶1The prisoner was jointly indicted with two others for the larceny of §4,000 from the Easton National Bank, but for reasons satisfactory to the commonwealth he alone put upon trial. One of the others — Joseph Howard, with several aliases — had theretofore been convicted and was then under sentence in the Eastern Penitentiary for stealing §14,000 from a bank in Lewis-burg.

¶2It was claimed by the commonwealth, and the evidence tended to prove, that the prisoner was one of a band of professional thieves and burglars by whom the crime charged in the indictment was adroitly planned and executed with the view of avoiding detection.

¶3An examination of the record with special reference to the specifications of error, fails to disclose any error, either in the admission or rejection of evidence, or in the charge of the court, that requires a reversal of the judgment. The photographic exhibits complained of in several of the specifications were neither incompetent nor irrelevant. They tended, in connee*152tion with other testimony, to identify the prisoner and connect him with the commission of the crime.

¶4Neither of the specifications is sustained.

¶5Judgment affirmed.

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