Case Name: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania ex rel. M. Russell BUCHANAN, Petitioner, v. District Justice Edward VERBONITZ and the District Attorney of Luzerne County, Respondents
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1988-07-28
Citations: 518 Pa. 469
Docket Number: Appeal No. 174 E.D. Miscellaneous Docket 1987
Parties: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania ex rel. M. Russell BUCHANAN, Petitioner, v. District Justice Edward VERBONITZ and the District Attorney of Luzerne County, Respondents.
Judges: Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, ZAPPALA, PAPADAKOS and STOUT, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 518
Pages: 469–470

Head Matter:
544 A.2d 447
COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania ex rel. M. Russell BUCHANAN, Petitioner, v. District Justice Edward VERBONITZ and the District Attorney of Luzerne County, Respondents.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Submitted April 15, 1988.
Decided July 28, 1988.
Frank W. Nocito, Wilkes-Barre, for petitioner.
Bernard A. Podcasy, Dist. Atty., LeRoy S. Zimmerman, Atty. Gen., for respondents.
Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, ZAPPALA, PAPADAKOS and STOUT, JJ.

Opinion:
ORDER OF COURT
PER CURIAM.
AND NOW, this 28th day of July, 1988, the Petition for Review having been improvidently granted since jurisdiction lies with the Superior Court and pursuant to Pa.R.A.P. 751, the record in this matter is transferred to the Superior Court for full disposition.