COMMONWEALTH v. FRANKLIN


172 Pa.Super. 152 (1952)

Commonwealth, Appellant, v. Franklin.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

November 12, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Reed, Assistant District Attorney, with him Samuel Dash, Assistant District Attorney, Michael von Moschizisker, First Assistant District Attorney, Malcolm Berkowitz, Assistant District Attorney, and Richardson Dilworth, District Attorney, for appellant.

William J. Woolston and Raymond Pace Alexander, for appellee.

Herman I. Pollock, Voluntary Defender, amicus curiae, in propria persona.

William Allen Rahill and Julian E. Goldberg, filed a brief, for American Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae.

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


The facts are stated in the opinion by MILNER, J., of the court below, as follows:

There is before us for consideration a rule granted upon the district attorney to show cause why a recognizance demanded of the petitioner should not be quashed and discharged.

It is stated in the amended petition that Edward J. Franklin, the petitioner, was indicted for assault and battery and for unlawfully resisting arrest, as of December Term, 1950, No. 347, in the Court...

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