Geiger v. State

1 Citing case

  1. Commonwealth v. Mealey

    85 Pa. Super. 509 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1925)   Cited 2 times

    The bottle had pasted on it a label containing written memoranda as to the person from whom it was bought, made, respectively, by one of the witnesses to the purchase and by the sheriff, each of whom testified on the trial as to the memorandum made by him. The Court of Appeals of Alabama held that as there was independent, direct evidence as to the existence of the facts stated in the memoranda, it was not error to admit the bottle in evidence, saying that the court could not be required to have the memoranda obliterated or the label removed from the bottle; and a certiorari was denied by the Supreme Court: Ex parte Harris, 65 So. 1033, 187 Ala. 670. That case is practically on all fours with this one. Somewhat similar rulings were made in Lee v. State, 97 So. 609 (Ala.); Gordon v. State, 67 S.E. 893 (Ga.); and Geiger v. State, 145 N.E. 881 (Ind.). In Com. v. Bentley, 97 Mass. 551, 554, beer had been seized in barrels by a constable, part of which was bottled, corked, sealed and labeled and sent by him by express, with other bottles, to a chemist for analysis.