Case Name: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. Earl Howard LYLES, Jr.
Court: Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1982-09-10
Citations: 304 Pa. Super. 177
Docket Number: No. 1797
Parties: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. Earl Howard LYLES, Jr.
Judges: Before WIEAND, McEWEN and POPOVICH, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports
Volume: 304
Pages: 177–179

Head Matter:
450 A.2d 159
COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. Earl Howard LYLES, Jr.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania.
Argued March 31, 1982.
Filed Sept. 10, 1982.
John T. Kalita, Deputy Attorney General, Philadelphia, for Commonwealth, appellant.
Michael C. Shields, Norristown, for appellee.
Before WIEAND, McEWEN and POPOVICH, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
This is an appeal from an order requiring the Commonwealth to pay for the rehabilitative therapy of appellee, Earl Howard Lyles, Jr. Mr. Lyles, a former inmate of the State Correctional Institution at Graterford, is a paraplegic now serving a modified sentence of thirty years probation. The Commonwealth, through the office of the Attorney General, contends that the lower court was without authority to require the Commonwealth to pay for the medical treatment of one no longer incarcerated.
Since this dispute necessarily involves the Commonwealth's Department of Public Welfare, which has received bills for payment for appellee's therapy, and the Bureau of Corrections, whose medical treatment capabilities are in question, we are transferring this case to the Commonwealth Court. See Pa.R.A.P. 752.
WIEAND, J., files a dissenting opinion.