Commonwealth v. Harris

Alessandroni, J.,

This is a petition to require the District Attorney to return to Martin Cohn the sum of $500 deposited by him as bail for one Dorothy Harris, who was charged with keeping a bawdy-house. Nothing has been seen or heard of Dorothy Harris since Martin Cohn deposited the money and obtained her release. He now requests that the $500 be returned to him because at the time of the posting of the deposit, to wit, on Jan. 11, 1928, he was a minor, and produces a certificate from the Bureau of Vital Statistics showing that one Max Cohn was born on Oct. 28, 1908.

The petition of one who…