Commonwealth v. Superintendent of House of Correction
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 283, Oct. T., 1916, by plaintiff, from order of Q. S. Philadelphia Co., Febru-. ary Sessions, 1916, remanding defendant'in habeas corpus proceedings in case of Commonwealth, ex rel., Florence Wilson v. Superintendent of House of Correction, Employment and Reformation for Adults and Minors. Petition for habeas corpus.
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Appeal, No. 283, Oct. T., 1916, by plaintiff, from order of Q. S. Philadelphia Co., Febru-. ary Sessions, 1916, remanding defendant'in habeas corpus proceedings in case of Commonwealth, ex rel., Florence Wilson v. Superintendent of House of Correction, Employment and Reformation for Adults and Minors. Petition for habeas corpus. The case turned as to whether the magistrate who committed the respondent as a disorderly street walker had jurisdiction to do so, or whether the Act of June 2,1871, P. L. 1301, on which the jurisdiction was claimed had been-repealed by the Act of June 17,1915, P. L.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Orlady, P. J.,
Florence Wilson, this relator, was arrested by a policeman, and taken before Magistrate William F. Beaton, to answer a charge of being a disorderly street-walker, in violation of the Act of Assembly of June 2, 1871; after a hearing, she was committed by the magistrate, as a disorderly street-walker under the said act, and sentenced *617on February 12, 1916, to nine months imprisonment in “The House of Correction, Employment and Reformation for Adults and Minors, in the City of Philadelphia.”
On the same day, by her next friend, she presented her petition for a writ of…
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