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COMMONWEALTH v. DORSEY

212 Pa.Super. 339 (1968)

Commonwealth v. Dorsey, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

June 13, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Tuohy, with him Marvin Comisky, for appellant.

William J. Stevens, Assistant District Attorney, with him Michael J. Rotko, Assistant District Attorney, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before WRIGHT, P.J., WATKINS, MONTGOMERY, JACOBS, HOFFMAN, SPAULDING, and HANNUM, JJ.

OPINION BY MONTGOMERY, J., June 13, 1968:

Appellant-defendant Horace Dorsey was charged with the rape and murder of Mae Ola Peckman, a 61 year old female. A jury found him guilty of the rape charge but not guilty on the charge of murder. An eyewitness, Michael Honczar, had observed appellant engaging in sexual intercourse upon the unconscious body of the deceased in the exact position in which she later was found dead. Her death was due to strangulation caused by...

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