JONES v. PACKEL, ET AL.

No. 805 C.D. 1974.

20 Pa.Commw. 606 (1975)

Hayden C. Jones, Jr., Plaintiff, v. Israel Packel, Robert Casey, Grace Sloan, Martin L. Murray, Thomas M. Nolan, Kenneth B. Lee, Robert J. Butera, Herbert Fineman, H. Jack Seltzer, Guy A. Kistler, Henry J. Cianfrani and Raymond Lederer, Defendants.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

August 1, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. David Spirt, with him Steven G. Laver, for plaintiff.

Norman J. Watkins, Deputy Attorney General with him Alan C. Warshaw, Deputy Attorney General, and Lawrence Silver, Deputy Attorney General, for defendants, Packel and Sloan.

Frank Adam Woelfling, Deputy Counsel, with him Frank P. Lawley, Jr., and William H. Smith, Chief Counsel, for defendant, Casey.

A. Richard Gerber, for remaining defendants.

Argued June 2, 1975, before President Judge BOWMAN and Judges CRUMLISH, JR., KRAMER, WILKINSON, JR., MENCER, ROGERS and BLATT.


PER CURIAM, August 1, 1975:

On June 8, 1949, plaintiff, Hayden C. Jones, Jr., was convicted on numerous bills of indictment, and sentenced to a term of fifteen to thirty years. Nineteen years subsequent to his incarceration, plaintiff petitioned for post-conviction relief. The same was granted and plaintiff obtained his release from prison, the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County having found that plaintiff's conviction had resulted, at least in part, from perjured...

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