Legal Opinion
Holmes' Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided November 23, 1954No. Appeals, 245 and 280PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Horace Stern,
*602We allowed an appeal in this case from the order of the Superior Court (175 Pa. Superior Ct. 137, 103 A. 2d 454) because appellant’s petition asserted that questions of his constitutional rights were involved.
Appellant, Joseph Holmes, had been in trouble with the authorities several times before the proceedings which gave rise to the present appeal. In 1949, when he was 13 years of age, he was adjudged delinquent by the Juvenile Division of the Municipal Court of Philadelphia on a petition alleging that he was involved in a highway robbery, and he was…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Williams v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Commonwealth v. FisherSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1905
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1943
- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Oncay v. OncaySuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1943
- Commonwealth Ex Rel. McClenen v. McClenenSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1937
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3Cited by104 opinions
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- Pee v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1959
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