Supreme Court of Pennsylvania September 15, 1835 (Gilchrist v. M'Kee)

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Gibson, C. J.

—It was decided in The Commonwealth v. Murphy, 14 Mass. Rep. 387, that the credit of a female witness may be impeached by evidence of prostitution; but the propriety of the decision has been questioned by the same court, if not denied, in The Commonwealth v.