COMMONWEALTH v. McKNIGHT


201 Pa.Super. 14 (1963)

Commonwealth v. McKnight, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

April 18, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert McKnight, appellant, in propria persona, submitted a brief.

Burton Satzberg, Assistant District Attorney, with him Arlen Specter, Assistant District Attorney, F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, Jr., First Assistant District Attorney, and James C. Crumlish, Jr., District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before RHODES, P.J., ERVIN, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, WATKINS, MONTGOMERY, and FLOOD, JJ.


OPINION BY FLOOD, J., April 18, 1963:

In Commonwealth v. Meehan, 409 Pa. 616, 187 A.2d 579 (1963), the Supreme Court granted a new trial to the present appellant's co-defendant Meehan because of the potentiality of harm to him arising from the fact that he and McKnight were represented by the same counsel although there was a serious conflict of interest between them as set forth in the dissenting opinion in Commonwealth v...

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