Commonwealth v. Greason
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 275, Jan. T., 1903, by defendant, from order of court of Oyer and Terminer of Berks Co., discharging rule for new trial, in case of Commonwealth v. Samuel Greason.
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Appeal, No. 275, Jan. T., 1903, by defendant, from order of court of Oyer and Terminer of Berks Co., discharging rule for new trial, in case of Commonwealth v. Samuel Greason. Rule for new trial under Act of April 22,1903, P. L. 245. From the record it appeared that on May 4, 1903, the Supreme Court made an order authorizing the court of oyer and terminer in its discretion to grant a new trial nunc pro tunc, in accordance with the act of April 22, 1903. See Greason’s Petition, 205 Pa. 630. In pursuance of this authority, the court of oyer and terminer granted a rule for new trial. After…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
This is a special proceeding for new trial under the Act of April 22,1903, P. L. 245, and it would be a sufficient answer to the present application that the act gives no appeal. But the purpose of the act was to obviate the common-law bar of the expiration of the term, and to enable the court in which *127there had been a conviction of murder to open the case for a new trial notwithstanding the end of the term. It is an act which was required in the interests of justice where important subsequent developments in a case cast serious doubt on the justice of the conviction: Greason’s…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Greason's PetitionSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1903
3Cited by5 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. GreenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1957
- Commonwealth v. CicereSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1926
- Commonwealth v. HarrisPhiladelphia County Court of Oyer and Terminer · 1954
- Commonwealth v. SheelerPhiladelphia County Court of Oyer and Terminer · 1950