COMMONWEALTH v. CHAITT


176 Pa.Super. 318 (1954)

Commonwealth v. Chaitt, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

July 13, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lemuel B. Schofield, with him John B. Brumbelow, John S. Reynolds and W. Hensel Brown, for appellant.

William C. Storb, District Attorney, for appellee.

Before RHODES, P.J., HIRT, RENO, ROSS, GUNTHER, WRIGHT and WOODSIDE, JJ.


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

The only question involved in this appeal is whether the testimony of local police officers relating conversations of the accused heard through tapping a telephone wire is admissible against one charged with crime in a court of this Commonwealth. We think it is.

The appellant was tried before a jury in the Quarter Sessions Court of Lancaster County on the charges...

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