Case ID: pa-super_213/html/0718-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Commonwealth v. Lawson, Appellant.
    Submitted June 10, 1968.
    
      Allan H. Lawson, appellant, in propria persona; James D. Crawford, Assistant District Attorney, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.
   Opinion

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).