Commonwealth v. Novak

Opinion bt

Mr. Justice Jones,

This appeal is from an order of the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Delaware County dismissing defend ant’s exceptions to the court’s order accepting and approving the report of a sanity commission and refusing to commit the defendant to a hospital for the mentally ill.

The defendant was charged on March 9, 1955, with murder in indictments returned by the Delaware County grand jury. On May 6th, while he was confined in jail awaiting trial, his counsel petitioned the court under the provisions of the Mental Health Act of June 12, 1951, P. L. 533, as amended, 50 PS…