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COMMONWEALTH v. MITCHELL

242 Pa.Super. 543 (1976)

364 A.2d 406

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Virginia MITCHELL, Appellant. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Barry E. GRAHAM, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

September 27, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward F. Browne, Jr., Asst. Public Defender, Lancaster, for appellants.

D. Richard Eckman, Dist. Atty., Charles A. Achey, Jr., Joseph C. Madenspacher, Asst. Dist. Attys., Ronald L. Buckwalter, 1st Asst. Dist. Atty., Lancaster, for appellee.

Before WATKINS, President Judge, and JACOBS, HOFFMAN, CERCONE, PRICE, VAN der VOORT and SPAETH, JJ.

CERCONE, Judge:

These consolidated1 appeals challenge the validity of an unwritten rule of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County requiring that any person who elects to appeal a summary conviction to the Court of Common Pleas must first furnish "bail" in the amount of $100 per conviction before his appeal will be perfected.

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