PENNSYLVANIA v. NELSON

No. 236.

348 U.S. 814 (1954)

PENNSYLVANIA v. NELSON.

Supreme Court of United States.

October 14, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank F. Truscott, Attorney General of Pennsylvania. Frank P. Lawley, Jr. and Harrington Adams, Deputy Attorneys General, William F. Cercone, Special Deputy Attorney General, Harry F. Stambaugh and Albert A. Fiok for petitioner. Victor Rabinowitz for respondent. Briefs of amici curiae supporting petitioner were filed by John Ben Shepperd, Attorney General, and John Atchison, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Texas; George Fingold, Attorney General, and Lowell S. Nicholson, Samuel H. Cohen and Fred L. True, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, for the State of Massachusetts; Latham Castle, Attorney General, and Grenville Beardsley, John L. Davidson, Jr. and William C. Wines, Assistant Attorneys General, for the State of Illinois; and Louis C. Wyman, Attorney General. for the State of New Hampshire joined by the Attorneys General of the States of Arizona. Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.


Certiorari granted. The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief setting forth the views of the...

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