Court Opinion

ID: 9644163
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 20:49:09.299955+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:09.209297
License: Public Domain

SPAETH, Judge,
dissenting:
An essential element of the offense is that appellee is “a parent ... of [relator’s] child born out of lawful *460wedlock.” 18 Pa.C.S. § 4323(a). The order dismissing the first prosecution with prejudice precluded the Commonwealth from ever trying to prove again that appellee was a parent of relator’s child; if the order did not have this result it was not with prejudice. Consequently, a second prosecution could not succeed. When it was nevertheless brought, the lower court correctly, in my opinion, dismissed it.
I would affirm.