Case Name: Commonwealth ex rel. Novak, Appellant, v. Banmiller
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1960-05-23
Citations: 399 Pa. 496
Docket Number: Appeal, No. 145
Parties: Commonwealth ex rel. Novak, Appellant, v. Banmiller.
Judges: Before Jones, C. J., Bell, Musmanno, Cohen, Boic and Eagen, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 399
Pages: 496–497

Head Matter:
Commonwealth ex rel. Novak, Appellant, v. Banmiller.
Argued May 3, 1960.
Before Jones, C. J., Bell, Musmanno, Cohen, Boic and Eagen, JJ.
Edward Novak, appellant, in propria persona.
Paul R. Sand, Assistant District Attorney, with him Jacques H. Fox, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.
May 23, 1960:

Opinion:
Opinion
per Curiam,
The facts set forth in the opinion for the court below, in support of its denial of the relator's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, were derived from court records in former proceedings involving the relator. It is our opinion that the charges contained in the relator's present petition, now here on appeal, can be disposed of, consonantly with the requirements of procedural due process, only upon a hearing on the petition at which the relator is represented by counsel and afforded an opportunity to support by evidence the allegations of his petition.
It is therefore ordered that the record be remanded to the court below for a hearing and thereafter returned to this court as augmented by the lower court's further findings and opinion as a result of such hearing.