Case Name: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. John W. DOYLE
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1988-01-12
Citations: 517 Pa. 245
Docket Number: Appeal No. 146 E.D. Appeal Dkt. 1985
Parties: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. John W. DOYLE.
Judges: Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, ZAPPALA and PAPADAKOS, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 517
Pages: 245–246

Head Matter:
535 A.2d 602
COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. John W. DOYLE.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Argued April 17, 1986.
Reargued Nov. 11, 1987.
Decided Jan. 12, 1988.
Mary MacNeil Killinger, Chief, Appeal Div., Joseph J. Hylan, Asst. Dist. Atty., Norristown, for appellant.
Richard D. Atkins, Theodore Simon, Philadelphia, for appellee.
Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, ZAPPALA and PAPADAKOS, JJ.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM:
The Court being evenly divided as to whether to render a decision on the merits, the appeal is hereby dismissed.
NIX, C.J., and FLAHERTY and ZAPPALA, JJ., would dismiss the appeal as having been improvidently granted.
McDERMOTT, J., files a dissenting opinion.
PAPADAKOS, J., files a dissenting opinion.
LARSEN, J., dissents.