COMMONWEALTH v. TUNSTALL

No. 318.

1 Pa. D. & C. 2d 426 (1954)

Commonwealth v. Tunstall

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

October 8, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Curtis C. Carson, Jr., and Victor Wright, assistant district attorney; Michael von Moschzisker, first assistant district attorney, and Richardson Dilworth, district attorney, for Commonwealth.

Schmidt, Green, Harris & Higginbotham, for defendant.


KLEIN, P. J. (specially presiding), October 8, 1954.

Calvin Tunstall, defendant, was tried without a jury and convicted of illegally maintaining a lottery. Defendant moved for a new trial and in arrest of judgment.

A study of the testimony discloses that on October 2, 1953, a search-and-seizure warrant was obtained by the police to search defendant's residence, 3915 Wallace Street, Philadelphia. On this day Police Officer William Jennings, in company with...

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