Commonwealth v. Evans

Citations

• 53 Pa. Super. 443
• 1913 Pa. Super. LEXIS 195

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Keeping bawdyhouse — Evidence—Hearsay evidence.</p> <p>A verdict of guilty of keeping a bawdyhouse cannot be sustained, where the only evidence to support it is that of a policeman who testified that he was told by a detective who raided the defendant’s house that fifteen couples were found therein, and that they had declared that they were unmarried and made it a practice to frequent the house, and it appears that such declarations were not made in the' presence of •the defendant or the witness, and a number of apparently reputable witnesses testify that the defendant kept a respectable hotel for colored people.</p>