Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Corman

Montgomery County Court of Quarter Sessions

Decided March 14, 1963No. 186Published

1Opinion of the Court

Forrest, P. J.,

Defendant in this case being charged with violation of the section of The Vehicle Code relating to speeding, waived a hearing before the justice of the peace and now has petitioned, or more properly, moved, to quash the information.

Defendant’s first reason for her motion is that her surname is Corman, whereas the name of defendant as it appears in the information is Coman. The court in Commonwealth v. Hessman, 8 D. & C. 2d 625 (1956), rejected this contention stating, p. 627:

“. . . ‘The rule seems to be that if names may be sounded alike without doing violence to the power of…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Commonwealth v. ReedSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1943

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