Commonwealth v. Hegedus
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 28, March T., 1910, by plaintiff, from order of Q. S. Lackawanna Co., Oct. T., 1909, No. 278, quashing indictment in case of Com. v. Mike Hegedus. Indictment for assault and battery. Demurrer to motion to quash indictment. Before Newcomb, J. The case turned on whether the district attorney had the right to have his official stenographer with him before the grand jury for the hearing of testimony for the purpose of talcing notes of the evidence of the witnesses.
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Appeal, No. 28, March T., 1910, by plaintiff, from order of Q. S. Lackawanna Co., Oct. T., 1909, No. 278, quashing indictment in case of Com. v. Mike Hegedus. Indictment for assault and battery. Demurrer to motion to quash indictment. Before Newcomb, J. The case turned on whether the district attorney had the right to have his official stenographer with him before the grand jury for the hearing of testimony for the purpose of talcing notes of the evidence of the witnesses. The court in an opinion by Newcomb, J., relying on Com. v. Kositchy, 17 Pa. Dist. Rep. 778, quashed the indictment. Error…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
The Act of April 27, 1909, P. L. 258, provides that the district attorney of any county which shall have less than 250,000 and more than 110,000 inhabitants may employ a stenographer “as an assistant in his office” at a salary not to exceed the sum of $1,200 per year, to be paid in the same manner as the salaries of other county officers are paid. Lackawanna county belongs to this class of counties, and the question for decision is whether *159the fact that the stenographer employed by the district attorney under this act attended before the grand jury and took stenographic…
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