Opinion
Argued June 14, 1968.
September 13, 1968.
Indictment charging defendant with violations of Magistrates' Courts Act and extortion. Before McDEVITT, III, P.J. Appeals, Nos. 900 to 951, inclusive, Oct. T., 1967, from judgments of sentence of Court of Oyer and Terminer, General Jail Delivery and Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Philadelphia County, July T., 1965, Nos. 886, 888, 891, 894, 897, 898, 904, 907, 912, 913, 921 to 927, inclusive, 930, 932, 936 to 941, inclusive, 949 to 952, inclusive, 954, 955, 956, 958, 961, 966, 972, 975, 976, 977, 978, 980, 981, 983, 986, 989, 990, 994, 995, 997, 999, 1001, and 1002. Argued June 14, 1968.
Walter LaMar, Jr., with him Nix, Watson Randolph, for appellant; John P. Mason, Special Assistant District Attorney, with him Benjamin H. Levintow and James D. Crawford, Assistant District Attorneys, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.
It having been made known to the Court by suggestion filed of record that the appellant, Earl Lane, died July 19, 1968, the appeals are abated.