Commonwealth v. Riley

Knight, P. J.,

— On the night of January 31 or the early morning of February 1, 1953, a police officer of the Borough of Norristown found the body of a child wrapped in a cloth and some paper by a tree on Willow Street in Norristown.

Subsequent investigation developed the following undisputed facts:

On Saturday afternoon, January 31, 1953, Bernice Riley, an unmarried Negro girl, 29 years old, who resided in Philadelphia but was employed in New York, came to Norristown to attend a wedding recep*573tion. Bernice Riley was pregnant and the day before she came to Norristown she had attempted to perform…