Commonwealth v. O'Gorman

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

The appellant was convicted of failure to support his child born out of wedlock and was sentenced to pay $2.50 per week for its support and maintenance. The prosecution was brought under section 732 of the Act of June 24, 1939, P. L. 872, 18 PS §4732, which provides that all prosecutions, with certain exceptions with which we are not here concerned, “must be brought within two (2) years of the birth of the child.”

The child in question was born June 11, 1938. Information was filed before a justice of the peace June 7, 1940, and the bill of indictment was returned by the…