Commonwealth v. Supansic

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

This appeal is by the Commonwealth from an order of the president judge of the seventeenth judicial district, specially presiding in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Westmoreland County, granting a new trial to Lawrence Supansie, a constable, convicted of the crime of extortion. The new trial was not granted for any of the reasons set forth in the motion therefor but, as stated in the opinion, the court below “would have refused to grant the new trial but for [the other] reasons distinctly set forth, which, in its opinion, control the whole case” and do not involve…