Commonwealth v. Duff

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Eagen,

On February 24, 1959, the defendant, Nathaniel Duff, entered pleas of guilty in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia County, before the Honorable Eabl Chudoff, a judge of that court, to six separate bills of indictment charging criminal abortion, and two bills charging conspiracy to commit an abortion. He was placed on probation for a period of twenty-three months on one of the bills charging abortion, and sentence was suspended on all others.

On January 24, 1961, the probationary period imposed expired, and the probation department terminated supervision.

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