COMMONWEALTH v. BROADWATER


171 Pa.Super. 483 (1952)

Commonwealth, Appellant, v. Broadwater.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

July 17, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank P. Lawley, Jr., Assistant Deputy Attorney General, with him Fred L. Brothers, District Attorney, Randolph C. Ryder and Robert J. Trace, Deputy Attorneys General, Joseph J. Baer and Robert E. Woodside, Attorney General, for appellant.

Anthony Cavalcante, for appellees.

Before RHODES, P.J., HIRT, RENO, DITHRICH, ROSS and GUNTHER, JJ. (ARNOLD, J., absent).


OPINION BY GUNTHER, J., July 17, 1952:

Elwood Broadwater, John Vanamin, Weldin Nicholson and Benjamin King1 were charged with violating § 313 of the Pure Stream Law.2 At the end of the Commonwealth's case in chief the court below sustained defendants' demurrer on the ground that the prosecution had failed to sufficiently identify defendants. The Commonwealth...

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