Case Name: Goddard against The Commonwealth
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1820-10-31
Citations: 6 Serg. & Rawle 282
Docket Number: 
Parties: Goddard against The Commonwealth.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Sergeant & Rawle)
Volume: 6
Pages: 282–283

Head Matter:
Goddard against The Commonwealth.
Tuesday, October 31.
The Court SeSbmsmay on a eonviction of fornica-, tion and bastbe'defendant5 to give securiformance ofr" tencTexcept the fine and cutionfP1'OSe”
In ERROR,
THOMAS GODDARD, being indicted in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Franklin county of fornication and bastardy, pleaded, guilty; whereupon, the Court, after having; f . ’ * ^ -, ,. , , . , , heard the circumstances ot the case, adjudged that he should P3)7 twenty dollars for lying-in expenses, ten dollars sixty-two cents for the maintenance of the child to the time of sentence, sixty-two and a half cents a week for six years, to be P3^ quarterly, indemnify the county, enter into a recognisanee, himself in four hundred dollars, and one good surety in three hundred dollars, for the performance of the above, and that he should also pay a fine of six cents, pay the costs of prosecution, and stand committed until the sentence should. be complied with.
The objection made in this Court, by Chambers, on behalf of the plaintiff in error,
was, that the Court of Quarter Sessions had no right to require security t'6 be given for the money ordered tobe paid.
The Court stopped Clarke who was about to argue the Commonwealth. (

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The judgment in this ,case is agreeable to the general practice. Security may be ordered for the performance of all the sentence, except the fine and costs, and so is the judgment in this case. As to the fine and costs, the defendant is committed till paid.
Judgment affirmed.