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COMMONWEALTH v. SINGLETON

439 Pa. 185 (1970)

Commonwealth v. Singleton, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

July 2, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph R. Danella, with him Louis Lipschitz, for appellant.

James D. Crawford, Deputy District Attorney, with him Brian E. Appel and Benjamin H. Levintow, Assistant District Attorneys, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

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

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, July 2, 1970:

Shortly before midnight on April 16, 1966, Ronald Singleton approached a police officer on the street and reported that his mother, sister and grandmother had been beaten in their nearby home. It was soon discovered that the three women were dead, and an intensive investigation was launched. The sixteen-year-old Singleton rapidly became the prime suspect as he began to give increasingly...

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