Commonwealth v. Palmer

Opinion by

Waticins, J.,

This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence imposed by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny County. The appellant, William Palmer, was charged with statutory rape and corrupting the morals of a minor. The jury found him not guilty of statutory rape but guilty of corrupting the morals of a minor. Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were argued and denied; and the appellant was sentenced to one to two years in the Allegheny County Workhouse.

The minor prosecutrix, Mary Ellen Hassett, was 14 years of age; the appellant, William Palmer, is a married…