GRAND JURY INV. of W. STATE PENITENTIARY


173 Pa.Super. 197 (1953)

Grand Jury Investigation of Western State Penitentiary.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

April 15, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Woodside, Attorney General, with him Harry F. Stambaugh, Special Counsel, Edward Friedman, Deputy Attorney General, and David S. Kohn, Deputy Attorney General, for appellant.

Albert A. Fiok, Assistant District Attorney, with him James F. Malone, Jr., District Attorney, and Louis Bowytz, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.

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


OPINION BY RHODES, P.J., April 15, 1953:

This is an appeal by the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from an order1 of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny County dismissing the petition of the Attorney General to limit to criminal acts committed in Allegheny County an investigation of the Western State Penitentiary2 by the grand jury (January, 1953)3 of...

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