Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Shook
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided December 14, 1967No. Appeal, 295PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Jacobs, J.,
The sole issue in this case is whether a defendant who resides in Pennsylvania can be tried for bastardy under Section 506 of The Penal Code, Act of June 24, 1939, P. L. 872, as amended, 18 P.S. §4506, when the child was born outside Pennsylvania to a nonresident prosecutrix. The lower court held that he could not. We affirm.
The prosecutrix in this case being an unmarried woman, on September 29, 1965 filed an information before a justice of the peace in Mercer County charging the appellee with fornication and being the father of her unborn child. At that time and at the…
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- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Hill v. BurkeSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1949
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