Show A PEST YE YES ES BUT COMMON I 1 SCOLD NO MAN CONTENDS cursed his hl neighbors neighbor and roared all over the place but what of it pittsburgh charles RI razzo azo a drafts admits he diw have disturbed the pence peace of Duffle duffield ld street he further admits he manhave may have ve been contentious obstreperous pugnacious and pestiferous he may have been unseemly is an his conduct toward his neighbors have injured their feelings by hard bard words and id threats th reata cut but claries darles iaizzo Is ready to fight to the end to prove he Is not a common scold lie intends to go to the united states supreme court if necessary espiry to set aside the verdict given in criminal court by a jury of eight men and four wom women en the affair goes back to last winter the good people of Ruffle ld street claim that every day bail and every night during the winter rizzo come came home shouting and cursing the neighbors caused to be invoked against iaizzo the old colonial law adopted in and still standing stan dlug oo on the statutes of the commonwealth and they listed rizzo into court to answer to being a co common ninion scold A dozen neighbors te testified stIlled gildt razzo would swear at them every time lie saw them day or night and that ills his conduct lit at all times was unseemly they testified he would stand in ill big yar dand and would curse them until they aliey fled questions by counsel failed to develop answers as to why some neighbor did not exercise the great american privilege of extirpating him eventually liuzzo was convicted but lie he appealed for a new trial ills lawyer lawter F 14 lagorio La gorlo cites the wording of the scold statute to prove blo biologically logi that rizzo could not be convicted under it for the low law defines a scold as a glib woman with a too active tongue Futher furthermore more counsel pleads pl eida should the conviction stand the county would ho he put to wasteful expense as the law provi provides dei the that any person convicted of bring being a common scold shall be ducked clucked three times in an open body of waiter the learned counsel points out that neither allegheny county nor pennsylvania state now owns a ducking lug stool |