Commonwealth ex rel. Thayer v. Keenan

Rossiter, J.,

The relator above named pleaded guilty to two indictments (true bills) charging him with indecent assaults on a seven-year-old girl. The pleas entered in court were preceded by two pleas of guilty before the committing magistrate. The details of the indecent assaults were not delineated in the indictments but were outlined to the court at the time of sentencing and suffice it to say that they were revolting and reprehensible.

The case could well be curtly disposed of on the authority of Commonwealth ex rel. Karpinski v. Burke, 182 Pa. Superior Ct. 135, except as we cannot let go…