Commonwealth v. Blank

Opinion by

Porter, J.,

The defendant was tried and convicted in the court below upon an indictment which charged that he did, on a day certain, commit fornication with a certain Rebecca Spector, and a bastard child on her body did then and there beget. The first and second assignments complain that the court erred in admitting the testimony of the woman as to illicit intercourse between her and the defendant during a considerable period of time prior to the day charged in the indictment. It is technically necessary that the indictment in such a case should charge the offense to have been…