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COMMONWEALTH v. WRIGHT

383 Pa. 532 (1956)

Commonwealth v. Wright, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 3, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul C. VanDyke, with him Cochrane & VanDyke, for appellant.

Ernest L. Green, Assistant District Attorney, with him Joseph E. Pappano, First Assistant District Attorney, and Raymond R. Start, District Attorney, for appellee.

Before STERN, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, BELL, MUSMANNO and ARNOLD, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ARNOLD, January 3, 1956:

This appeal will have to be quashed. The defendant was indicted for fornication and bastardy. The prosecuting witness testified positively that the defendant had had intercourse with her and was the father of her child. The defendant did not testify, but introduced a written report of blood tests which, in the opinion of the doctors making the report, showed that the defendant could not be the father of her child. In...

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