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- Title: Commonwealth Pennsylvania v. Edward Joines
- Author : Superior Court of Pennsylvania
- Release Date : January 16, 1979
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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Appellant was convicted after a jury trial of making unsworn falsifications to authorities and fabricating physical evidence in connection with a fire that occurred on October 15, 1974. The evidence viewed in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth established the following. On October 15, a fire was set in an unoccupied home in East Lansdowne by Albert Pinner, a convicted arsonist who at the time was a member of the East Lansdowne Fire Company. Appellant, who was Chief of the Fire Company, attended the fire and later filed a report on the incident. In his report, appellant said the fire was probably caused by the owners failure to extinguish a cigarette. There was little evidence, however, to support appellants surmise. At trial, several witnesses