Commonwealth v. Gatto

Opinion by

Kenworthey, J.,

Appellant was convicted of pandering and knowingly accepting bawd money. Act of 1939, June 24, P. L. 872 §§513, 515, 18 PS §§4513, 4515. This appeal brings up for consideration the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the convictions and the correctness of several rulings of the trial judge.

Jennie Celli, alias Mary Brands, has been convicted of like offenses relating to the same bawdy house — 520 Pine Street, Easton, — and her conviction upheld in an opinion reported at 153 Pa. Superior Ct. 88, 33 A. (2d) 97. The commonwealth’s theory was that appellant also had a…