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- Title: Giaccio v. Pennsylvania
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 19, 1966
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
Description
Appellant Giaccio was indicted by a Pennsylvania grand jury and charged with two violations of a state statute which makes it a misdemeanor to wantonly point or discharge a firearm at any other person. In a trial before a judge and jury appellants defense was that the firearm he had discharged was a starter pistol which only fired blanks. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty on each charge, but acting pursuant to instructions of the court given under authority of a Pennsylvania statute of 1860, assessed against appellant the court costs of one of the charges (amounting to $230.95). The Act of 1860, set out below, provides among other things that:
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