Com. v. Wright
Decision Date | 03 January 1956 |
Citation | 119 A.2d 492,383 Pa. 532 |
Parties | COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Harry WRIGHT, Jr., Appellant. |
Court | Pennsylvania Supreme Court |
Paul C. Van Dyke, Cochrane & Van Dyke, Chester, for appellant.
Ernest L. Green, Asst. Dist. Atty., Joseph E. Pappano, First Asst. Dist. Atty., Raymond R. Start, Dist. Atty., Media, for appellee.
Before STERN, C. J., and STEARNE, JONES, BELL, MUSMANNO and ARNOLD, JJ.
This appeal will have to be quashed. The defendant was indicted for fornication and bastardy. The prosecuting witness testified positively that the defendant had had intercourse with her and was the father of her child. The defendant did not testify, but introduced a written report of blood tests which, in the opinion of the doctors making the report, showed that the defendant could not be the father of her child. In spite of this evidence the jury convicted him. The court granted a new trial in the interest of justice, after which the defendant took an appeal, contending, in substance, that the blood test statements were conclusive, and that he was entitled to be discharged.
In the first place, the defendant could not be discharged of the charge of fornication. In addition, an appeal in a criminal case, with certain exceptions not important here, can be taken only after sentence.
In Commonwealth v. Haimbach, 151 Pa. Super. 581, 583, 30 A.2d 653, 654, the Court stated:
Nor can the defendant, after the grant of a new trial, proceed on the theory that the court should have entered judgment for him.
In Commonwealth v. Haimbach, supra, 151 Pa.Super at page 584, 30 A.2d 653, at page 654, the Court stated: ...
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