Commonwealth v. Wilcox
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 294, Oct. T., 1920, by Commonwealth from judgment of O. & T. Bradford County, May T., 1920, No. 3, paroling defendant in the case of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Fannie Wilcox. Petition to release on parole, under the provisions of the Act of May 11, 1911, P. L. 2T3, a prisoner who had been acquitted on the charge of murder on the ground of insanity, and subsequently committed to the Homeopathic State Hospital, at Allentown.
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Appeal, No. 294, Oct. T., 1920, by Commonwealth from judgment of O. & T. Bradford County, May T., 1920, No. 3, paroling defendant in the case of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Fannie Wilcox. Petition to release on parole, under the provisions of the Act of May 11, 1911, P. L. 2T3, a prisoner who had been acquitted on the charge of murder on the ground of insanity, and subsequently committed to the Homeopathic State Hospital, at Allentown. Before Maxwell, P. J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. The court made an order that the prisoner be paroled. Commonwealth appealed. Error…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Porter, J.,
The defendant in this case was tried in the court below upon an indictment charging murder and was acquitted by the jury, on the ground of insanity. The court, on May 26, 1920, committed the defendant to the Homeopathic State Hospital, at Allentown, with direction that she should be in strict custody, so long as she should continue of unsound mind. The father of the defendant, on July 23, 1920, presented a petition to the court below representing that the defendant was no longer of unsound mind, and praying that she be released upon parole, under the provisions of the Act…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- County of Lehigh v. SchockSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1886
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- Commonwealth v. ThomasSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1981