Commonwealth v. Fox
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 54, Oct. T., 1918, by defendant, from judgment of Municipal Court, Aug. T., 1916, No; 121, sentencing the defendant in case of Commonwealth v. Lillie Fox. Motion for sentence. Before Gorman, J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned was in sentencing the defendant.
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Appeal, No. 54, Oct. T., 1918, by defendant, from judgment of Municipal Court, Aug. T., 1916, No; 121, sentencing the defendant in case of Commonwealth v. Lillie Fox. Motion for sentence. Before Gorman, J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned was in sentencing the defendant. The suspension of a sentence, in the absence of any terms or conditions might be indefinite and without limitation as to time, but after sentence is suspended and a probation imposed after a fixed period of time the suspension of the sentence and the probation run together, one ending with the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Henderson, J.,
On December 6, 1916, the defendant pleaded guilty to the charge of keeping a bawdyhouse in violation of Section 43 of the Act of 1860, P. L. 382. Pursuant to the provisions of the first section of the Act of June 19, 1911, P. L. 1055, the court suspended the imposing of the sentence and placed the defendant on probation for a year. January 14, 1918, on information received that the defendant had violated the terms of her probation the court issued a bench warrant on which she was arrested and on January 18, 1918, a sentence of nine months in the Philadelphia County…
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