Rosen v. Superintendent of Police Le Strange

Opinion by

Keller, P. J.,

The order appealed from must be reversed.

The petition of appellant, filed in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia County on April 17, 1935, averred that on April 7, 1935 a squad of police raided the apartment occupied by him and arrested him and several others for maintaining a gambling house; that he was given a hearing and discharged by the magistrate, on the testimony of the police that they found no gambling going on there; that the police unlawfully took from appellant’s pocket at the time of said raid the sum of $42.60, which they have refused to return…