Commonwealth v. Call

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• quoting, “The sentencing judge lacks authority to issue an order at variance with the terms of this statute [61 P.S. § 331.17].”
• order by the sentencing judge which purports to either grant or deny parole to a person serving a maximum sentence in excess of two years is beyond the authority of the sentencing court and is a nullity
• appellate court may raise a jurisdictional question sua sponte
• authority of appellate court sua sponte to raise jurisdictional defect

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).