Commonwealth v. Hessler
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 200, Oct. T., 1908, by-defendant, from judgment of O. & T. Franklin Co., Feb. T., 1908, No. 5, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Florence Hessler. Indictment for concealing the birth of a bastard child. Before Gillan, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Verdict of guilty, upon which the prisoner was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. Defendant appealed. Error assigned was in submitting the case to the jury.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Morrison, J.,
This is an appeal by the defendant from the judgment in the same case wherein we have filed an opinion this day in the appeal of D. C. Moll at No. 199, October Term, 1908, ante, p. 107. We cannot see that any of the errors mentioned in that opinion could have injured the defendant Florence Hessler who was jointly indicted and tried with Moll. The only assignment of error as to her appeal is that there was, “no evidence *116in the case which is sufficient in law to convict her of concealing the death of her bastard child in order that it might not come to light whether it…
2Cited by1 opinion
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