Commonwealth v. McNaughton

HOFFMAN, Judge:

Appellant contends that the lower court incorrectly permitted the introduction of written hearsay evidence on which it based its adjudication of delinquency as defined by the Juvenile Act.1 We agree and, therefore, remand for another hearing.

*305On March 30, 1976, appellant, age thirteen, appeared in Juvenile Court in the Court oí Common Pleas of Allegheny County in response to a petition filed by his probation officer. The petition alleged that on March 5, 1976, while appellant was at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic for psychiatric evaluation,2 Dr. Solmani, appellant’s…