Commonwealth v. Shepherd
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
THE defendant was indicted for fornication with one, Sarah Myers, and begetting a bastard child on her body; and upon the trial before Yeates J. in July last, he was convicted. The defendant now moved for a new trial, and his honour reported that the' case was as follows: Sarah Myers the prosecutrix was married in the year 18Q1. She lived with her husbánd two or three years after — -..-•.v-ji iii the marriage, when he went off to JVerv York where he had resided ever since.
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THE defendant was indicted for fornication with one, Sarah Myers, and begetting a bastard child on her body; and upon the trial before Yeates J. in July last, he was convicted. The defendant now moved for a new trial, and his honour reported that the' case was as follows: Sarah Myers the prosecutrix was married in the year 18Q1. She lived with her husbánd two or three years after — -..-•.v-ji iii the marriage, when he went off to JVerv York where he had resided ever since. Her father- James Humphreys took her back to his own house in Kensington, and she had uniform- ' ly dwelt under his roof,…
1Opinion of the Court
Tilghman C. J.
This is a motion for a new trial by William Shepherd, who has been convicted of fornication with Sarah Myers, and begetting a bastard child on her body. The reasons assigned are, that the judge who tried the cause admitted improper evidence, and erred in his *286charge to the jury. Also that the verdict was against the evidence.
Sarah Myers was a married woman. Her husband had left her some years previous to the birth of the bastard child; he lived in New York, and she in Kensington near Philadelphia. The judge charged the jury, that if on consideration of all the evidence, they…
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