Commonwealth v. Dunleavy

Citations

• 16 Pa. Super. 380
• 1901 Pa. Super. LEXIS 81

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law— Costs — Penally—Sentence.</p> <p>A direction to pay the costs in a criminal proceeding is not a sentence in the sense of its being a part of the penalty imposed by law.</p> <p>Criminal law — Sentence—Suspension of sentence — Final judgment.</p> <p>An order of the court of quarter sessions suspending sentence on condition that costs be paid within five days, is not such a final judgment as will prevent the court, after the expiration of the term, from calling the prisoner for sentence and imposing uj:>on him the penalty affixed by law to the offense of which he was convicted.</p> <p>Criminal law — Sentence—Judge specially presiding — Imposition of sentence by resident judge.</p> <p>Where a president judge specially presiding in another county than his own tries a criminal case and enters an order suspending sentence, the president judge of the county in which the trial was had may subsequently call up the prisoner and impose sentence upon him.</p>