Commonwealth v. Kane

Opinion by

Montgomery, J.,

This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence rendered by the Honorable Juanita Kidd Stout in a trial of the appellant who was indicted on a charge of assault and battery on his former wife. At the time of the trial defense counsel moved the court to disqualify itself on the grounds that in April, 1960, the same judge had previously heard a petition for support in which the defendant and the prosecutrix were the principal parties, and that during those proceedings the judge had become familiar with the appellant’s past criminal record which had been placed in…