Commonwealth v. Brown

DOWLING, J.,

Defendant, a single mother of five children, apparently embarked on the sea of parenthood without a paddle, for a quintet of daughters, Laverne, Juanita, Donza, Annette and Kiona, during the summer of 1977, terrorized the 1600 block of Market Street, Harrisburg, resulting in the mother’s arrest for and conviction of maintaining a public nuis anee, which verdict is challenged by a motion in arrest of judgment.

The testimony developed at the non-jury trial disclosed that Brenda continually left her children, ranging in age from 6 to 17, alone and unsupervised, which put them upon the…