COM. ex rel. ROBINSON v. RUNDLE


409 Pa. 462 (1963)

Commonwealth ex rel. Robinson, Appellant, v. Rundle.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 8, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Robinson, appellant, in propria persona.

Louis Abromson and William Claney Smith, Assistant District Attorneys, and Edward C. Boyle, District Attorney, for appellee.

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


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE O'BRIEN, January 8, 1963:

In July of 1955, the relator, while undergoing psychiatric treatment in an Ohio institution, told the treating physician that he, the relator, had committed a homicide in Pittsburgh some years earlier. The homicide to which he referred was the murder of one Lawrence Scott in July of 1952. The physician reported this information and the relator was interrogated by Ohio police officers and, subsequently, by county detectives...

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