Commonwealth Ex Rel. Kelly v. Aytch

SPAETH, Judge:

On July 12, 1975, appellant, aged seventeen, was arrested in Philadelphia and charged with being a fugitive from Mississippi and Tennessee. On July 22, after a hearing pursuant to Section 15 of the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act, Act of July 8, 1941, P.L. 288, 19 P.S. § 191.15, Judge CODY concluded that appellant was the person wanted by the demanding states, and committed him to the county jail pending receipt of Governors’ Warrants. On August 12 appellant filed a petition to transfer the case to Family Court; the petition alleged that appellant was a “child” within the…