Commonwealth v. Walker

Citations

• 33 Pa. Super. 167
• 1907 Pa. Super. LEXIS 262

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Statutory rape — Age of prisoner — Evidence.</p> <p>On the trial of an indictment for statutory rape of a female under sixteen years of age, where the commonwealth rests without offering any evidence of the age of the prisoner, or as to his identity as the person indicted, and without offering his appearance in evidence, it is reversible error for the court to submit the age of the prisoner to the jury on his appearance, without more.</p> <p>Criminal law — Practice, 0. & T. — Arrest of judgment — Sufficiency of the evidence.</p> <p>A motion in arrest of judgment is not the proper mode of raising the question as to the sufficiency of the evidence to warrant a conviction.</p>