Commonwealth v. Morse

Smith, P. J.,

The above defendant, while in confinement in the county jail under sentence of six months’ imprisonment by this court and payment of costs and $600 fine, became ill, and, upon his petition, we, under the Act of May 31, 1919, P. L. 356, obviously enacted by the proper promptings of humanity to prisoners so afflicted, ordered his transfer to the S. H. Barnes Memorial Hospital, in this county, “for medical or surgical care and treatment for such disease as he may, after diagnosis, be found afflicted with,” with permission for his securing an X-ray photograph by an expert in the City…