COMMONWEALTH v. ONDA


376 Pa. 405 (1954)

Commonwealth v. Onda, Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

February 24, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hymen Schlesinger, for defendant, filed the petition.

Honorable Henry X. O'Brien, Judge of the Court of Quarter Sessions, in propria persona, filed an answer.

James F. Malone, Jr., District Attorney, and Wendell Freeland and George H. Ross, Assistant District Attorneys, filed an answer for the District Attorney.

Before STERN, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, BELL and CHIDSEY, JJ.


OPINION AND ORDER OF THE COURT BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HORACE STERN, February 24, 1954:

Defendant, Andrew Onda, who was convicted in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Allegheny County of violation of the State Sedition Act of 1919, re-enacted as part of The Penal Code of 1939 (Act of June 24, 1939, P.L. 872, § 207), petitioned this court for a rule on the Commonwealth to show cause why his sentencing should not be deferred for a period of four months pending his...

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