Commonwealth v. Young

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

The defendant had sexual intercourse with Agnes Jandres, the nineteen-year-old prosecutrix, on June 15, 1946, and on no other occasion. She gave birth to a child on February 25, 1947. Defendant in this prosecution was charged with fornication and bastardy and was found guilty of both. The testimony clearly convicts him of fornication. The question in this appeal is whether the evidence is sufficient in law to support the finding of the jury that the child is the fruit of the coition of June 15, 1946, the only date on which defendant was intimate with the girl.

The difficulty…