Commonwealth v. Gantz

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

On November 23, 1936, Carl Gantz, appellant herein, was tided and convicted upon an indictment, framed under the Act of July 11, 1917, P. L. 773, 18 PS §2161, as amended by the Act of July 21, 1919, P. L. 1075, 18 PS §2162, and charging him as the father of certain minor children born of the body of Sarah Hooven, out of lawful wedlock, with having wilfully neglected and refused to contribute reasonably to tbeir support and maintenance. At the trial the testimony was limited to two of the six children named in the indictment— Dorothy, born December 31, 1929, and…