Commonwealth v. Shavinsky

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

This is an appeal from the refusal of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny County to grant the defendant’s motions in arrest of judgment and for a new trial after his conviction by a jury and sentence on a charge of failure to support three children born out of lawful wedlock in violation of Section 732 of The Penal Code of June 24, 1939, P. L. 872, 18 PS §4732.

After a prior conviction on the same indictment the lower court granted a motion of the defendant for a new trial on the ground that the prosecutrix was permitted to present incompetent testimony as to…