Commonwealth v. Gamble
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 96, Oct. T., 1907, by-defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Bedford Co., April T., 1907, No. 6, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Robert E. Gamble. Before Rice, P. J., Porter, Henderson, Morrison, Orlady and Head, Jj. Reversed. Indictment for adultery. Before Woods, P. J. Verdict of guilty, direction of the court upon which judgment of sentence was passed. Defendant appealed. Error assigned was in directing the jury to convict.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
All of the questions that need be discussed on this appeal are raised by the fourth, fifth and sixth assignments of error.
The defendant, when testifying in his own behalf, admitted the alleged sexual intercourse between himself and Etta Crissman, but denied that it was adulterous, as alleged in the indictment, and testified that prior thereto they were united in marriage on November 14, 1906, at Baltimore, Maryland, by a minister, whose certificate he produced and put in evidence. Therefore, as the case stood when the introduction of evidence was stopped, and the remark,…
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