Commonwealth v. Denson

Argued December 15, 1944. On March 24, 1944 a true bill was returned by the grand jury to No. 490 March Sessions, 1944, of Philadelphia County, charging this appellant and two other women, (Lewis and Varden) inter alia, with giving a theatrical and vaudeville exhibition of a lascivious, obscene, indecent and immoral nature and character, tending to corrupt morals (Penal Code of 1939, sec. 528, p. 913). When called for trial on September 26, 1944, the three women defendants pleaded guilty. This appellant was represented by counsel. Sentence of thirty days imprisonment in the county prison was…