Opinion
Submitted June 10, 1968.
August 9, 1968.
Petition for post-conviction hearing. Before KURTZ, JR., J. Appeal, No. 585, Oct. T., 1968, from order of Criminal Courts of Chester County, Feb. T., 1956, No. 278. Submitted June 10, 1968.
William P. Richardson, appellant, in propria persona; Joseph R. Polito, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, and Norman J. Pine, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.
The order of the court below is vacated and the record remitted with instructions to grant petitioner's request, as an indigent, for production of a copy of the notes of testimony taken at the post-conviction hearing, and a copy of the court's opinion dismissing the post-conviction petition, in order to permit petitioner to prosecute an effective and adequate appeal. See Griffin v. Illinois, 351 U.S. 12 (1956); § 12 of the Post Conviction Hearing Act of January 25, 1966, P.L. (1965) 1580 (19 P. S. § 1180-12).