Commonwealth ex rel. Smith v. Patterson

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

This is an appeal by Charles L. Patterson from a sentence directing him to pay $6 per week for the support of a child born out of wedlock. The sentence was imposed after his conviction of willful neglect to support the child in violation of the Act of June 24, 1939, P. L. 872, §732, 18 P.S. §4732. He contends that the court below erred in its refusal to arrest the judgment of sentence on the ground of the long delay between the making of the information and the trial.

The child was born May 19, 1951. The mother signed an affidavit of complaint on August 1, 1951, charging…