Commonwealth of Pa. v. Moran

Opinion bv

Cunningham, J.,

William AVesley and John Moran, the respective appellants in these appeals, which will be disposed of in one opinion, were separately indicted but jointly tried in the court below upon indictments identical in form and each containing a single count charging rape and bastardy.

The principal witness for the Commonwealth, Alice Bowman, testified that each appellant had carnal knowledge of her on the same evening in the latter part of November, 1927. On August 23, 1928, she gave birth to a bastard child. The trial judge, specially presiding, correctly instructed the jury…