Legal Opinion

Riddle Appeal

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 3, 1974No. Appeals, 1170 and 1171Published

1Opinion of the Court

227 Pa. Superior Ct. 68 (1974)

Riddle Appeal.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Submitted December 11, 1973.

April 3, 1974.

Before WRIGHT, P.J., WATKINS, JACOBS, HOFFMAN, CERCONE, and SPAETH, JJ. (SPAULDING, J., absent.)

Leonard Turner, for appellant.

Nicholas J. Lisi, and Solo, Bergman & Padova, for appellee.

OPINION BY JACOBS, J., April 3, 1974:

This case presents the question whether the double jeopardy clause of both the United States and Pennsylvania Constitutions[1] bars the retrial of one accused of neglect to support a bastard and fornication and bastardy under § 732 and § 506, respectively, of…

2Cases cited24 opinions

  1. United States v. JornSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  2. Helvering v. MitchellSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  3. One Lot Emerald Cut Stones and One Ring v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  4. Commonwealth v. WidemanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1973
  5. Commonwealth v. DillworthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1968

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