Commonwealth v. Lyles

This is an appeal from an order requiring the Commonwealth to pay for the rehabilitative therapy of appellee, Earl Howard Lyles, Jr. Mr. Lyles, a former inmate of the State Correctional Institution at Graterford, is a paraplegic now serving a modified sentence of thirty years probation. The Commonwealth, through the office of the Attorney General, contends that the lower court was without authority to *179require the Commonwealth to pay for the medical treatment of one no longer incarcerated.

Since this dispute necessarily involves the Commonwealth’s Department of Public Welfare, which has…