Commonwealth v. David

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

These appeals are from the judgments of sentence by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia County after trial and conviction before a judge without a jury, on charges of setting up and maintaining an illegal lottery, pandering, and prostitution and assignation.

Two plainclothes officers of the Philadelphia police force were investigating a report from a reliable, con fidential source that appellant was operating a house of prostitution at 5737 Cedar Avenue, Philadelphia. The one officer made two phone calls to the premises and spoke to someone who identified…