OPINION BY GUNTHER, J., July 21, 1955:
The defendant, a magistrate in the City of Philadelphia, was indicted, tried and convicted of subornation of perjury. The evidence on behalf of the Commonwealth disclosed the following situation. On December 20, 1952, Anderson Sayles was arrested on a lottery charge, as was Benjamin DeStefano shortly thereafter upon Sayles' identification of him as the person to whom he turned in numbers slips. Sayles later signed and swore to...
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