Legal Opinion

Suspended Sentence

Pennsylvania Department of Justice

Decided June 4, 1947Published

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion to Honorable G. Harold Wagner, Auditor General.

Miller, Deputy Attorney General,

This department is in receipt of your request for advice in which you ask if a court of quarter sessions may enforce a sentence of “fine $200.00 and pay costs *277of prosecution, further sentence suspended” three and more years after the original judgment was rendered, by commitment, attachment for contempt or civil execution process.

You also ask if the sole power to authorize remission of uncollectible fines, actually due the Commonwealth, is vested in the Governor.

A court, upon the expiration of the term at…

2Cases cited31 opinions

  1. Hill v. United States Ex Rel. WamplerSupreme Court of the United States · 1936
  2. Gompers v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
  3. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Banks v. CainSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1942
  4. Com. Ex Rel. Paige v. Smith, WardenSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1938
  5. Commonwealth v. BordenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1869

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