Superior Court of Pennsylvania, 1968

Commonwealth v. Lawson

Commonwealth v. Lawson
Superior Court of Pennsylvania · Decided August 9, 1968
213 Pa. Super. 718; 244 A.2d 793; 1968 Pa. Super. LEXIS 850

Commonwealth v. Lawson

Opinion of the Court

*719Opinion

Per Curiam:

The order of the court below is vacated and the record remitted with instructions to grant petitioner’s request, as an indigent, for production of a copy of the notes of testimony taken at the post-conviction hearing, and a copy of the court’s opinion dismissing the post-conviction petition, in order to permit petitioner to prosecute an effective and adequate appeal. See Griffin v. Illinois, 351 U.S. 12 (1956); §12 of the Post Conviction Hearing Act of January 25, 1966, P. L. (1965) 1580 (19 PS §1180-12).

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