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COMMONWEALTH v. HOFFMAN

396 Pa. 491 (1959)

Commonwealth v. Hoffman.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

July 2, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon H. Kline, with him Joseph H. Foster, for petitioners.

Thomas C. Caldwell, with him Caldwell, Fox and Stoner, for respondent.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, BOK and McBRIDE, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JONES, July 2, 1959:

This matter is here on special certiorari. We issued the writ on petition of Maurice Hoffman and Martin H. Philip, Esquire. The petition sets forth that President Judge McCREADY of the Court of Common Pleas of Carbon County, sitting as a committing magistrate, had issued warrants for the arrest of the petitioners for an alleged indirect contempt, had required bail of each of them in the sum of $500 to be posted...

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