Commonwealth v. Robertson

Citations

• 47 Pa. Super. 472
• 1911 Pa. Super. LEXIS 184

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Indictment—Quashing indictment — Record—Discretion of court.</p> <p>1. It is a wrongful exercise of the discretion of the court of quarter sessions to quash an indictment where the indictment is regular on its face, and the court gives no reason for its action, and there is nothing on the record or dehors the record to justify the order.</p> <p>2. In passing upon a motion to quash an indictment the discretion which the court must exercise is a judicial, and not an arbitrary one.'</p> <p>Criminal law — Indictment—Information—Disorderly house — Bawdy-house.</p> <p>3. An information which charges the defendant with keeping a 'bawdyhouse, and with keeping a disorderly house, is sufficient to support an indictment which charges in one count the ofíense of keeping a bawdyhouse and in the second count of keeping a disorderly house.</p>