Commonwealth v. Rouse

Opinion by

Jacobs, J.,

This appeal is taken by defendant from judgment of sentence imposed after his motions in arrest of judgment and for a new trial were denied by the lower court.

Defendant was tried before the Honorable John J. McDevitt, of Philadelphia County, sitting without a jury, and convicted of assault and battery, indecent assault, aggravated assault and battery, assault and battery with intent to ravish, sodomy, and corrupting the morals of a minor child. The acts involved defendant’s eight-year old daughter.

In his first argument, defendant contends that reference to his criminal…