Burns v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR TO THE COURT OE QUARTER SESSIONS OE nr.AIR. COUNTY. No. 417 January Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 19 January Term 1889, Q. S. On January 15,1889, the grand jury returned as a true bill an indictment drawn under § 94, act of March 31, 1860, P. L. 405, charging that David Burns and Nettie Burns “ maliciously, by force and fraud, did lead, take and carry away, and decoy and entice away a child under the age of ten years, to wit: Maud E. Gregory, two and one half…
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ERROR TO THE COURT OE QUARTER SESSIONS OE nr.AIR. COUNTY. No. 417 January Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 19 January Term 1889, Q. S. On January 15,1889, the grand jury returned as a true bill an indictment drawn under § 94, act of March 31, 1860, P. L. 405, charging that David Burns and Nettie Burns “ maliciously, by force and fraud, did lead, take and carry away, and decoy and entice away a child under the age of ten years, to wit: Maud E. Gregory, two and one half years old, the daughter of Mrs. Delilah Gregory, with intent to deprive its parent, the said Mrs. Delilah Gregory, she…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Me. Justice McCollum :
This case grows out of quarrels between A. B. Gregory and his wife, Delilah, which resulted in their separation in November last, and a contest for the possession of their only child, Maud, aged two years and four months. When Mrs. Gregory separated from her husband she took Maud with her, but upon his representation that he was sick and desired to see his child, she returned with it to his home. Her departure was on the 19th, and her return on the 27th, of November. There was no reconciliation between the husband and the wife, and no effort by either to effect…
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