Commonwealth ex rel. Nuber v. Keeper of Workhouse

Citations

• 6 Pa. Super. 420
• 1898 Pa. Super. LEXIS 173

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Practice, Q. S. — Suspension of sentence — Order when equivalent to final sentence.</p> <p>An order of the court of quarter sessions which suspends sentence as to a part of the penalty prescribed by law for an offense, and imposes a pecuniary penalty upon the defendant, where fine and imprisonment constitute the penalty affixed to the crime, is, to all intents and purposes, a legal sentence, compliance with the terms of which renders it illegal for the court to alter or reform the sentence, after the term at which trial, conviction and the said partial sentence occurred, and any sentence subsequent thereto is illegal and void.</p>