Commonwealth v. Mc. Evans

Opinion by

Porter, P. J.,

The appellant was convicted and sentenced in the court below of wilful neglect and refusal to contribute reasonably to the support and maintenance of a child born out of lawful wedlock, of which he was averred to be the father, the offense created by the Act of July 11, 1917, P. L. 773. The material averments of the indictment were as follows: that the defendant ‘ ‘ on the twenty-sixth day of December, 1925, * * * unlawfully did have carnal knowledge of the body of a certain Ethel Clark, who then was, and now is a single woman, and a male bastard child on the body of…