Commonwealth Ex Rel. Colbert v. Aytch

HOFFMAN, Judge:

Appellant contends that the lower court improperly ordered extradition because (1) the proceeding was properly within the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court and not the Court of Common Pleas; (2) the Commonwealth failed to provide a Section 15 hearing required by the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act1; and (3) the arrest warrant did not demonstrate probable cause to believe that appellant committed the crime alleged by the demanding state.

Appellant, seventeen years old, and wanted in South Carolina for murder, was arrested as a fugitive in *282Philadelphia, on April 21, 1975.2 After…