Commonwealth v. Dickson
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 240, Oct. T., 1919, by defendant, from judgment and sentence of Municipal Court of Philadelphia, July Sessions, 1919, No. 1311, in the case of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Lavina Dickson. Indictment for disorderly street walking. Before McNichol, J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Yerdiet of guilty on which judgment of sentence was passed. Defendant appealed. Error assigned, among others, was the sentence of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Keller, J.,
The defendant was charged with disorderly street walking, and after a hearing before the municipal court was found guilty and committed to the house of correction. The proceeding having been brought since the approval of the Act of April 18, 1919, P. L. 72, the appeal brings up as a part of the record the testimony taken in the court below.
From the record thus before us, it appears that the charge against the defendant was disorderly street walking. This is in the exact language of the Act of June 17, 1915, P. L. 1017, giving the municipal court exclusive jurisdiction in…
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