Legal Opinion
McNair's Petition
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided June 26, 1936No. 876, Miscellaneous Docket of 1936PublishedCited by 214 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Kephart,
On June 11, 1936, Thomas Sacco appeared before Judge Ralph H. Smith, in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny County, charged with larceny, entering a building with intent to commit a felony and receiving stolen goods. Judge Smith was erroneously informed by a police officer that Sacco’s accomplices had been discharged by the magistrate. Without further verification of the facts by the magistrate’s docket, the Judge accused Magistrate David Turets of “fixing,” and issued a subpoena for him. The court also ordered that charges be preferred against those…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Blair v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1919
- Commonwealth v. GreenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1889
- Commonwealth v. BrownSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1903
- Commonwealth v. BartilsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1877
- Bowman's CaseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1909
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3Cited by214 opinions
- Carpentertown Coal & Coke Co. v. LairdSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1948
- Praisner v. StockerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
- Gorski v. SmithSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2002
- Commonwealth v. GenoveseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1981
- Pirillo v. PirilloSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1975
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