Commonwealth v. Hickox

Decided January 31, 1969

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1969-01-31

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““Where counsel has been assigned, such assignment shall be effective until final judgment, including any proceedings upon direct appeal.””

quoted by 1 later decision, including Commonwealth v. Daniels

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1969-01-31

How this case has been cited

Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2001

8 state decisions

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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¶1 Opinion

Per Curiam,

¶2 At trial, petitioner was represented by appointed counsel. Subsequent to trial, new counsel was appointed to represent petitioner in his appeal to the Superior Court. Such an appeal was filed and resulted in an affirmance of the judgment of sentence. Thereafter, counsel for the petitioner informed petitioner that he would proceed no further with the matter.

¶3 Rule 318(c) of the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure requires that: “Where counsel has been assigned, such assignment shall be effective until final judgment, including any proceedings upon direct appeal.”

¶4 Petitioner’s counsel, appointed in connection with his appeal to the Superior Court, is directed to proceed in accordance with the Rule.