COMMONWEALTH v. COYLE


190 Pa.Super. 509 (1959)

Commonwealth v. Coyle, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

September 16, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas H. Cauley, with him Cauley and Birsic, for appellant.

William Claney Smith, Assistant District Attorney, with him Edward C. Boyle, District Attorney, for appellee.

Before RHODES, P.J., HIRT, GUNTHER, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, ERVIN, and WATKINS, JJ.


OPINION BY WOODSIDE, J., September 16, 1959:

This appeal involves the weight to be given to evidence of a blood grouping test which showed that the defendant in a bastardy case could not have been the father of the prosecutrix's child. The jury, apparently ignoring the evidence of the blood test, convicted the defendant, and the court below refused a new trial. After sentence was imposed upon the defendant, he appealed to this Court.

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