Case Name: Commonwealth v. LaRue, Appellant
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1970-04-28
Citations: 438 Pa. 401
Docket Number: Appeal, No. 530
Parties: Commonwealth v. LaRue, Appellant.
Judges: Before Beel, C. J., Jones, Cohen, Eagen, O’Bbien, Roberts and Pomeroy, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 438
Pages: 401–402

Head Matter:
Commonwealth v. LaRue, Appellant.
Submitted January 5, 1970.
Before Beel, C. J., Jones, Cohen, Eagen, O’Bbien, Roberts and Pomeroy, JJ.
Melvine Dildine, Assistant Defender, and Vincent J. Ziccardi, Acting Defender, for appellant.
Irwin L. Gross, Assistant District Attorney, James lJ. Crawford, Deputy District Attorney, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.
April 28, 1970:

Opinion:
Opinion
Per Cubiam,
In this PCHA proceeding appellant's only substantive claim is that the indictment upon which his conviction is based was illegally altered at the time of his trial. According to appellant, the grand jury returned two true bills against him, a number 672 charging man slaughter and- a number 673 charging murder. Both bills were entirely regular in their form except that No. 673 was undated. He further asserts that at the time of his trial the assistant district attorney, upon seeing that No. 673 was undated, took the bill and dated it himself.
After hearing appellant's contentions and. examining the records in his Quarter Sessions file, the hearing court decided that his claim was factually groundless. Having been offered no reason to disturb this finding, we affirm.