Heikes v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Quarter Sessions of Cumberland county. The facts of these cases sufficiently appear in the opinions of his Honour, Mr. Justice Knox.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Knox, J.
At the August Sessions, a. d. 1854, held in the county of Cumberland, John Heikes was indicted for fornication and bastardy. The indietment, which was in the usual form, was tried in January, 1855, and a special verdict was rendered, in which the jury found that the defendant, on the 15th day of July, 1853, committed fornication with Sarah A. Nichol, in the county of York, and that the child which was then begotten was born in the county of Cumberland on the 13th April, 1852.
The defendant by his counsel moved in arrest of judgment for the…
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