Commonwealth v. Letterman

Fleming, P. J.,

— The defendant seeks a new trial, having been convicted of the crime of fornication and bastardy. The defense offered at the trial was an alibi, the defendant contending that on Jan. 7 and Jan. 8, 1928, when the prosecutrix alleged that he was with her in a hunting camp in the Seven Mountains, this county, he was actually at his home in Milesburg. The defense was somewhat unusual, in that it was sought to be proven, without any show of hesitation, that it was the defendant’s brother, and not he, who was present at the time the prosecutrix became pregnant and who was…