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COMMONWEALTH v. DANIEL

430 Pa. 642 (1968)

Commonwealth v. Daniel, Appellant. Commonwealth v. Douglas, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

July 1, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carolyn Engel Temin, Assistant Defender, with her Melvin Dildine, Assistant Defender, and Herman I. Pollock, Defender, for appellants.

Alan J. Davis, Assistant District Attorney, with him Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Phineas Indritz and Marguerite Rawalt, of the Washington, D.C. Bar, for amici curiae.

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

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, July 1, 1968:

In these appeals, appellants attack the Constitutionality of the Muncy Act.* The Muncy Act provides a mandatory and exclusive procedure and sentencing provisions for women convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for more than one year.

Appellant Jane Daniel was found guilty of robbery (by a Judge sitting without a jury) and was sentenced...

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