Commonwealth v. Tarsnane

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

The defendant was convicted of sodomy on Bill No. 403, and of related offenses charged in two other indictments. He was sentenced on the sodomy conviction alone. In this appeal it is contended that defendant, is entitled to a new trial because venue as laid in the indictment was contested and was not supported by the proofs.

The victim in this case was a seven-year old girl. Under the testimony, accepted by the jury, the defend^ ant enticed the child into his automobile on Wyoming Avenue in Philadelphia early in the afternoon of July-16, 1950. He then drove some distance to…