COM. ex rel. TABB v. YOUTH S.C. SUPER


407 Pa. 466 (1962)

Commonwealth ex rel. Tabb, Appellant, v. Youth Study Center Superintendent.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 21, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cecil B. Moore, for appellant.

Arlen Specter, Assistant District Attorney, with him Louis F. McCabe, Assistant District Attorney, Paul M. Chalfin, First Assistant District Attorney, and James C. Crumlish, Jr., District Attorney, for appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN and O'BRIEN, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BENJAMIN R. JONES, May 21, 1962:

Two fourteen year old boys, Lincoln Tabb and Moses McDuffie, on March 6, 1961 were arrested in Delaware County and charged with larceny of an automobile. While in custody, Tabb and McDuffie, made statements which, if true, implicated them in a murder which had taken place on February 25, 1961 in Philadelphia. Tabb and McDuffie were taken to Philadelphia where they were interviewed, first, by a police officer...

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