Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Embody

Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Bradford County

Decided January 27, 1940No. 3Published

1Opinion of the Court

Culver, P. J.,

Charles Embody, the above defendant, was indicted in this county for sodomy and entered a plea of guilty to an attempt to commit sodomy, and was, on December 9, 1937, sentenced to pay the costs of prosecution, a fine of $1,000, and undergo *281imprisonment by separate or solitary confinement at labor in the Eastern Penitentiary for the indefinite period of not less than two years and not to exceed five years.

Twenty-one days after his sentence, to wit, December 30, 1937, the said Charles Embody died in prison. The fine and costs remaining unpaid and the original judgment of the court…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. United States v. PomeroyU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1907
  2. United States v. New York Cent. & H. R. R.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1908
  3. Commonwealth ex rel. Bruce v. MoranSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1916
  4. Commonwealth v. RarickSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1917
  5. Commonwealth v. DunnSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1914

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