COMMONWEALTH v. MOURTON

No. 65.

4 Pa. D. & C. 2d 487 (1955)

Commonwealth v. Mourton

Common Pleas Court of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.

September 12, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. M. Garrahan, for prosecutrix.

A. K. Hettinger, for defendant.


HENNINGER, P. J., September 12, 1955.

This case comes before the court on a rule to show cause why an appeal should not be allowed from the imposition of costs amounting to about $18 upon defendant by an alderman upon a finding that a prosecution for assault and battery against her was not well founded.

The principle of imposition of costs upon a discharged defendant goes back at least to the Act of December...

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