Flannery Appeal

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Benjamin R. Jones,

Two questions are herein presented: (1) where a school teacher is charged with “immorality” and “incompetency” arising out of an alleged misappropriation of school-administered funds and, at the time of the hearing on such charges some four months later, it appears that he suffers from a mental illness, does the Public School Code require that such teacher be dismissed only upon the ground of “mental derangement” and not upon the grounds of “immorality” or “incompetency?”; (2) did the dismissed school teacher have a fair and impartial hearing?

Edward M.…