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COMMONWEALTH v. BEILER

168 Pa.Super. 462 (1951)

Commonwealth v. Beiler, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

March 12, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Eaby, with him Samuel S. Wenger, for appellants.

Elmer T. Bolla, Deputy Attorney General, with him John Milton Ranck, District Attorney, Louis S. May, Solicitor and Charles J. Margiotti, Attorney General, for appellee.

Before HIRT, RENO, DITHRICH, ROSS, ARNOLD and GUNTHER, JJ. (RHODES, P.J., absent).

OPINION BY RENO, J., March 12, 1951:

Samuel and Levi Beiler were convicted in summary proceedings before a justice of the peace and on appeal in the court below of violating the compulsory attendance provisions of the Public School Code of 1949, P.L. 30, 24 P.S. § 1-101 et seq. They are members of the Old Order Amish Church, and their separate appeals invoke the protection of religious freedom guaranteed by the State and Federal Constitutions.

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