Com. ex Rel. Young v. Myers

Full title: Commonwealth ex rel. Young, Appellant, v. Myers

Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Date published: Nov 10, 1964

204 A.2d 457 (Pa. 1964)

204 A.2d 457

Opinion

Submitted July 6, 1964.

November 10, 1964.

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

Appeal (petition for allocatur), No. 104, Jan. T., 1965, from order of Superior Court, Oct. T., 1963, No. 381, affirming order of Court of Common Pleas of Berks County, Sept. T., 1963, No. 145, in case of Commonwealth ex rel. Austin Young v. David N. Myers, Superintendent. Petition for allocatur granted, orders reversed and new trial ordered.

Same case in Superior Court: 203 Pa. Super. 447.

Habeas corpus.

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

Austin Young, petitioner, in propria persona.

Peter F. Cianci, First Assistant District Attorney, and Frederick O. Brubaker, 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 Berks County are reversed and the record is remanded to the court of original jurisdiction with directions to issue the writ and order a retrial.