UNITED STATES EX REL. STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA v. McDEVITT

No. 3411.

195 A.2d 740 (1963)

UNITED STATES ex rel. STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, Appellant, v. John M. McDEVITT, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 12, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles H. Rogovin, Chief Asst. Dist. Atty. for County of Philadelphia, appearing specially, with whom David C. Acheson, U. S. Atty., Frank Q. Nebeker and Martin R. Hoffman, Asst. U. S. Attys., Stanley M. Shingles, Asst. Dist. Atty. for County of Philadelphia, and James C. Crumlish, Jr., Dist. Atty. for County of Philadelphia, were on the brief, for appellant.

Michael J. Stack, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and QUINN and MYERS, Associate Judges.


MYERS, Associate Judge.

This appeal stems from the refusal of the Criminal Division, District of Columbia Court of General Sessions, to issue process requiring John M. McDevitt, now present in the District of Columbia, to return as a witness to testify before the November, 1962, Investigating Grand Jury convened in the city of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

The application for attendance of this witness was accompanied by a certificate from a...

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