COMMONWEALTH v. ACKERMAN


176 Pa.Super. 80 (1954)

Commonwealth v. Ackerman, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

July 13, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marjorie H. Matson, with her Harry S. Kalson, for appellant.

Samuel Strauss, with him Wendell G. Freeland, Assistant District Attorneys and James F. Malone, Jr., District Attorney, for appellee.

Before HIRT, ROSS, GUNTHER, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE and ERVIN, JJ. (RHODES, P.J., absent).


OPINION BY HIRT, J., July 13, 1954:

The defendant Alfred J. Ackerman was the Justice of the Peace in the Borough of Whitaker, Allegheny County. Eighty indictments against him were consolidated for trial before the same jury. In the indictments there were thirty charges of Cheating by Fraudulent Pretenses, eight charges of Extortion, forty charges of Misdemeanor in Office, one charge of violation of the Motor Vehicle Code and one charge of Conspiracy. The jury found...

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