Court Opinion

ID: 9750605
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 15:10:22.635341+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:26:13.937970
License: Public Domain

Dissenting Opinion by
Mr. Justice Roberts:
I dissent from the Court’s action in this case. Cf. Commonwealth v. Byrd, 421 Pa. 513, 519, 219 A. 2d 293, 296 (1966) (dissenting opinion). In my view a more appropriate disposition would be to remand this matter to the court below with leave to the parties to proceed under the new and now controlling Mental Health and Mental Retardation Act of 1966.* Such a remand would, of course, imply no view as to whether application of the new act to the defendant would violate his right to a speedy trial or any other constitutional guarantee.

 Act of October 20, 1966, P. L. , §§101-704, 50 P.S. §§4101-4704; effective, January 1, 1967.