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COMMONWEALTH v. CAVANAUGH

183 Pa.Super. 417 (1957)

Commonwealth v. Cavanaugh, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

June 11, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John V. Snee, with him Snee, Cook & Stockdale, for appellant.

William Claney Smith, Assistant District Attorney, with him Edward C. Boyle, District Attorney of Allegheny County, for appellee.

Lloyd H. Fuge, with him Sylvan Libson, Marjorie Hanson Matson, and Richard B. Tucker, Jr., for American Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae.

Before RHODES, P.J., HIRT, GUNTHER, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, ERVIN, and WATKINS, JJ.

OPINION BY RHODES, P.J., June 11, 1957:

We have before us two appeals, one from the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Allegheny County, the other from the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County. The basic question presented relates to representation by counsel.

Shirley Cavanaugh, according to her own admission, entered, through a cellar window, the home of the parents of her divorced husband in Wilkinsburg, Allegheny County, about one o'clock on the morning...

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