Commonwealth v. Lingle

Per Curiam,

The defendant was indicted for 'statutory’ rape. He pleaded 'not guilty’ and went to trial. The jury disagreed. When the case came up for trial the second time, the defendant moved to quash the indictment, because the information, on which it was founded, failed to state that the offense had been committed in Lebanon County.

The indictment charged that the crime had been committed in Lebanon County, and all the evidence on the first trial, with respect to the commission of the crime, fixed Lebanon County as the scene of the offense.

The court below refused to quash the indictment and…