Hughes v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Kogers,

John H. Hughes, a civil service employee, has appealed from an adjudication and order of the State Civil Service Commission upholding his suspension and subsequent removal as Institutional Maintenance Superintendent I, regular status, attached to a Youth Development Center of the Department of Welfare located at Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.

Mr. Hughes, whose duties with the Center included the handling of automotive supplies, was suspended and then removed on a charge that he had appropriated a truck tire from the Center’s inventory to his own use. Mr. Hughes filed a timely…