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COMMONWEALTH v. SMITH

417 Pa. 321 (1965)

Commonwealth v. Smith, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 16, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Hannum, with him Peter Hearn, William T. Coleman, Jr., Robert W. Maris, Theodore O. Rogers, and Pepper, Hamilton and Scheetz, and Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish, Kohn & Dilks, for appellant.

Alfred Delduco, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE MUSMANNO, March 16, 1965:

So insignificant an event in the world of constitutional rights and liberties as the purchase of an ice cream cone on a summer's evening, set off, in this case, a chain of events which carried litigation into a court of quarter sessions, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the office of the Solicitor General of the United States, and the Supreme Court of the United States —...

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