Commonwealth v. Fox

WOOD, J.,

Defendant seeks release on bail under the provisions of the Act of March 31, 1860. P. L. 427, sec. 54, as amended, 19 PS §781. He was arrested on May 26, 1970, and committed to Lycoming County Prison on a general charge of murder. An indictment was approved on August 3, 1970, but defendant has not been brought to trial. The *196matter is now before this court on a petition to set bail.

The act provides, inter alia, that if “any person shall be committed for treason or felony, or other indictable offense and shall not be indicted and tried some time in the next term, session of oyer and…