COMMONWEALTH v. SCHWARTZ


82 Pa. D. & C. 559 (1952)

Commonwealth v. Schwartz

Common Pleas Court of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

April 21, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Stroud Weber, district attorney, for Commonwealth.

Wisler, Pearlstine, Talone & Gerber, for defendant.


KNIGHT, P.J., April 21, 1952.

Defendant was charged with a violation of section 414 of The Penal Code of June 24, 1939, P.L. 872, in that he sent to Officer Hugh McCann of the Cheltenham Township police force a typewritten letter containing defamatory, scurrilous and opprobrious language without appending his proper signature.

The section of The Penal Code referred to reads as follows:

"Whoever, without appending his proper signature thereto, sends...

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