SEXTON v. Stine

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Jones,

Appellants were complaining witnesses 1 in two criminal assault cases presented to York County Grand Jury in July of 1972. After considering the evidence, the grand jury dismissed both cases and imposed the costs of prosecution on appellants pursuant to Section 62 of the Act of March 31, 1860, P. L. 427, 19 P.S. §1222, which provides: “In all prosecutions, cases of felony excepted, if the bill of indictment shall be returned ignoramus, the grand jury returning the same shall decide and certify on such bill whether the county or the prosecutor shall pay the…