Court Opinion

ID: 9694451
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 17:42:00.964939+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:09:30.091273
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Opinion
Per Curiam,
Tbe appellant, Augustine Jackson, was convicted by a jury in Allegheny County of committing an unlawful abortion in violation of Sections 718 and 719 of the Act of June 24, 1939, P. L. 872, 18 P.S. §§4718-4719. A prison sentence was imposed and Jackson filed an appeal therefrom in the Superior Court.1 Because other appeals were then pending in this Court involving the identical issue, the Superior Court certified Jackson’s appeal here.
The conviction and judgment of sentence must be reversed. See Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 93 S. Ct. 705 (1973), and Commonwealth v. Page, 451 Pa. 331, 303 A. 2d 215 (1973).
It is so ordered.

 The trial court stayed execution of the sentence pending appeal.