Blackman v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR TO THE COURT OE QUARTER SESSIONS OE SCHUYLKILL COUNTY. No. 21 January Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 2,058 July Term 1886, Q. S. On September 10, 1886, the grand jury returned as a true bill an indictment tbat Oliver J. Blackman on July 1, 1885, did commit fornication with a certain Lydia Ami Leehner, and a female bastard child did beget, contrary, etc. The defendant pleaded, not guilty.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OE QUARTER SESSIONS OE SCHUYLKILL COUNTY. No. 21 January Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 2,058 July Term 1886, Q. S. On September 10, 1886, the grand jury returned as a true bill an indictment tbat Oliver J. Blackman on July 1, 1885, did commit fornication with a certain Lydia Ami Leehner, and a female bastard child did beget, contrary, etc. The defendant pleaded, not guilty. At the trial on September 15, 1886, Lydia Ann Leehner, the prosecutrix, was called for the commonwealth, when the following offer was made: “ Commonwealth offers to prove the offence, then to…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mu. Chief Justice Paxson :
The plaintiff in error was convicted in the court below of fornication and bastardy. The offence was committed in 1881: the indictment was found September 10, 1886, and it charged *581the offence as having been committed on the first- day of July, 1885. Upon the trial below, the commonwealth offered “ to prove the offence, then to follow it by evidence that the defendant was a fugitive ; that the child was begotten in 1881 ; that in November, 1881, information was made against defendant before John E. Fertig, justice of the peace; a warrant issued and placed in…
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