Commonwealth v. Walker

Citations

• 34 Pa. Super. 14
• 1907 Pa. Super. LEXIS 73

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Taking a child for purpose of prostitution.</p> <p>The Act of May 28, 1885, P. L. 27, relating to taking a woman child under sixteen years of age for the purpose of prostitution, is not repealed by the Act of May 19, 1887, P. L. 128, by which section 91 of the crimes act of March 31, 1860, was amended.</p> <p>The word “takes,” in the first section of the act of May 28, 1885, does not mean merely a taking of a woman child by force, but it means a taking by artifice, cajolery, craft, persuasion or promise, or by the purely voluntary surrender of the person taken.</p>