Commonwealth v. DeWan

Opinion by

Gunther, J.,

Appellant Avas indicted and convicted under the Act of May 27, 1949, P. L. 1900, section 1, added to The Penal Code of 1939, 18 PS §4418, for malicious loitering or malicious prowling at the Nurses Home of Montgomery County Hospital, Norristown, Pa. The trial was conducted before Honorable George C. Corson without a jury, the right to a jury trial having been previously waived. Prom a verdict of guilty and a sentence of thirty days imprisonment in the Montgomery County Prison, appellant has filed this appeal.

On the night of March 12, 1954, at about 7:15 P.M., two nurses…