Commonwealth v. Lloyd
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY THE COMMONWEALTH FROM THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY. January Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 98 June Term 1890, Q. S. On May 27, 1890, the grand jury returned as a true bill an indictment charging Joseph Lloyd with fornication and bastardy, on the information of Jemima Davis.
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APPEAL BY THE COMMONWEALTH FROM THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY. January Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 98 June Term 1890, Q. S. On May 27, 1890, the grand jury returned as a true bill an indictment charging Joseph Lloyd with fornication and bastardy, on the information of Jemima Davis. On October 13, 1890, the defendant filed a plea, averring that the commonwealth ought not further to prosecute the said indictment, for that on April 23, 1890, at a Court of Quarter Sessions held at Wilkes-Barre, in the county of Luzerne, the defendant was called upon and pleaded to…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam :
The defendant was indicted in the court below for fornication and bastardy. He entered the plea of autrefois convict, and in support of it produced the record of an indictment for the same offence in the county of Luzerne, with his conviction of the fornication. It was conceded that the latter offence had been committed in Luzerne, but that the female bastard child, the result of the intercourse, was born in Lackawanna county. The act of March 31, 1860, P. L. 393, provides that in cases of this kind “ the prosecution of the reputed father shall be in the county where the bastard…
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