Commonwealth v. Terry

HESTER, Judge:

This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence of the Court of Common Pleas of Tioga County.

Appellant was convicted of failing to support a bastard child (18 P.S. § 4323). Post verdict motions were denied and he was, subsequently, sentenced to a year in jail, sentence suspended in lieu of paying a $750.00 fine. This appeal followed.

Appellant asserts, inter alia, that the lower court erred in permitting the prosecutrix to testify as to an offer made by appellant to pay her hospital bills and the expenses involved in her delivery.

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