Commonwealth v. Peregoy

Opinion by

Cercone, J.,

This is an appeal by the Commonwealth from the lower court’s order quashing the transcript of a preliminary hearing and quashing indictments charging defendant with statutory rape, incestuous adultery and corrupting the morals of his minor daughter.

A proper consideration of this case requires a chronology of the events. On September 2, 1971, the Montgomery County Grand Jury returned bills of indictment against defendant alleging that he had committed the above-mentioned crimes “on or about August 21, 1970, and diverse other times within the other two years past.” Since…