COM. ex rel. GORDY v. LYONS


434 Pa. 165 (1969)

Commonwealth ex rel. Gordy, Appellant, v. Lyons.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

April 23, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F.M. Jackson, with him S. Allen Needleman and Isadore A. Shrager, for appellant.

James D. Crawford, Assistant District Attorney, with him Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for appellee.

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


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE EAGEN, April 23, 1969:

On November 8, 1967, Dennis Ball, who was eighteen years of age, was shot to death on a street in Philadelphia. Demetrius Gordy, the appellant, was taken into police custody and charged with commission of the crime. On January 25, 1968, Gordy was given a hearing before a juvenile court judge, sitting as a committing magistrate, who directed that Gordy be continued in custody without bail to await action by the grand jury...

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