Commonwealth v. Miller

Citations

• 63 Pa. Super. 548
• 1916 Pa. Super. LEXIS 210

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Suspension of sentence — Discharge on probation —Rearrest and sentence — Act of June 19,1911, P. L. 1055.</p> <p>Where a woman has beeii convicted o£ conducting herself as an idle and disorderly streetwalker, but sentence has been suspended and the prisoner has been placed on probation under the provisions of the Act of June 19, 1911, P. L. 1055, she may be subsequently rearrested on a bench warrant and sentenced to the house of correction without the record of the second proceeding showing a formal adjudication that the defendant was guilty of being an idle and disorderly streetwalker. In such a case the court is merely imposing the sentence suspended by the court at the previous hearing at which time the question of her guilt had been adjudicated.</p>