Com. ex Rel. Slempa v. Rundle

Full title: Commonwealth ex rel. Slempa, Appellant, v. Rundle

Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Date published: Nov 10, 1964

204 A.2d 458 (Pa. 1964)

204 A.2d 458

Opinion

Submitted July 24, 1964.

November 10, 1964.

Before BELL, C. J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.

Appeal (petition for allocatur), No. 105, Jan. T., 1965, from order of Superior Court, Feb. T., 1964, No. 36, affirming order of Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County, Dec. T., 1963, No. 1698, in case of Commonwealth ex rel. Walter Slempa v. Alfred T. Rundle, Superintendent. Petition for allocatur granted, orders reversed and new trial ordered.

Same case in Superior Court: 203 Pa. Super. 729.

Habeas corpus.

Petition dismissed, opinion by PINOLA, P. J.; relator appealed to Superior Court which affirmed order, per curiam. Relator petitioned for allocatur.

Walter Slempa, petitioner, in propria persona.

Pasco L. Schiavo, Assistant District Attorney, Robert J. Hourigan, First Assistant District Attorney, and Thomas E. Mack, District Attorney, for respondent.

OPINION PER CURIAM, November 10, 1964:

In the light of our decisions in Commonwealth ex rel. O'Lock v. Rundle, 415 Pa. 515, 204 A.2d 439 (1964), and Commonwealth ex rel. Goodfellow v. Rundle, 415 Pa. 528, 204 A.2d 446 (1964), allocatur is granted in the above case. The orders of the Superior Court and the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County are reversed and the record is remanded to the court of original jurisdiction with directions to issue the writ and order a retrial.