Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Smith
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided February 27, 1975No. Appeals, Nos. 545 and 546PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Cercone, J.,
This is an appeal by the Commonwealth from the order of the court below dismissing criminal charges filed against the appellees, David Smith, and David Patrick Myers.
The stipulated facts giving rise to this appeal are as follows. Both appellees (hereinafter defendants) were charged, before District Justice Stephen Ostrowski, with the crime of receiving stolen property in violation of 18 P.S. § 4817, the property in question being a 1968 Dodge pick-up truck. On April 26, 1973, after a preliminary hearing, Justice Ostrowski dismissed the charge against each defendant…
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