Commonwealth v. Sarves

Citations

• 17 Pa. Super. 407
• 1901 Pa. Super. LEXIS 327

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Remarks by district attorney — Review.</p> <p>Heated language of doubtful professional propriety by the district attorney in a criminal case is not a ground for reversing the judgment against the prisoner, where it is not clear that the manner of trial injuriously affected the defendant, and the trial judge fully guarded the rights of the prisoner in a temperate and impartial charge.</p> <p>Criminal law — Keeping bawdy house — Evidence.</p> <p>On the trial of an indictment for keeping a bawdy house evidence is admissible as to the number of strangers who visited the place, their purpose in going, their time of going, what they did there and the reputation of the place in the neighborhood.</p>