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COMMONWEALTH v. STAUFFER

214 Pa.Super. 113 (1969)

Commonwealth v. Stauffer, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

March 20, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William W. Stainton, with him John W. Beyer, and Arnold, Bricker, Beyer & Barnes, for appellant.

Theodore A. Parker, First Assistant District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

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

OPINION BY HOFFMAN, J., March 20, 1969:

Linnie Pearl Stauffer was charged and convicted of involuntary manslaughter. The court sentenced her to the State Correctional Institution at Muncy for an indeterminate sentence in accordance with the Act of July 25, 1913, P.L. 1311, as amended, 61 P.S. § 551 et seq.

Subsequent to the imposition of sentence, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania held that the sentencing of women to Muncy under that Act violated the...

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