COMMONWEALTH v. CHRISTOPHER


168 Pa.Super. 592 (1951)

Commonwealth, Appellant, v. Christopher.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

May 18, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.T. Thompson, with him W. Bertram Waychoff, District Attorney, and Montgomery, Thompson and Baily, for appellant.

Wade K. Newell, with him William H. Sayers, for appellees.

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


PER CURIAM, May 18, 1951:

This is an appeal by the Commonwealth from an order of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Greene County granting a defendant's motion for discharge after the jury had failed to agree. The ruling being against the Commonwealth on a pure question of law, it has the right to appeal (Com. v. Bienkowski, 137 Pa.Super. 474, 478, 9 A.2d 169), and the order will be reviewed by us on this...

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