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TAYLOR and SELBY APPEALS

412 Pa. 32 (1963)

Taylor and Selby Appeals.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

July 15, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur Littleton, with him John R. McConnell, and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, for appellants.

Arlen Specter, Assistant District Attorney, with him Stanley M. Shingles and Louis F. McCabe, Assistant District Attorneys, Charles H. Rogovin, Chief Assistant District Attorney, and James C. Crumlish, Jr., District Attorney, for Commonwealth.

Charles H. Weidner, Calvin E. Smith, and Stevens & Lee, for amici curiae.

Arthur B. Hanson, Calvin H. Cobb, Jr., Emmett E. Tucker, Jr., and R. Kennon Jones, of the Washington, D.C. Bar, for amicus curiae.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, July 15, 1963:

Appellants appeal from Orders adjudging each of them guilty of contempt of Court and imposing on each of them a fine of $1,000 and a sentence of five days imprisonment in the Philadelphia County prison.

The November 1962 Investigating Grand Jury was convened and charged to investigate alleged criminal conduct and corruption in the legislative and executive branches of the City of Philadelphia and in the Zoning...

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