COMMONWEALTH v. McCOY et al.


216 Pa.Super. 436 (1970)

Commonwealth, Appellant, v. McCoy et al.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

June 11, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen B. Harris, Assistant District Attorney, with him Ward F. Clark, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellant.

Richard J. Molish, Stephen I. Weiss, and Weiss, Nelson & Moskowitz, for appellee.

S. Richard Klinges, III, for appellee.

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


OPINION BY SPAULDING, J., June 11, 1970:

On July 29, 1967, Donald Palace received a telephone call threatening that Palace would be killed if he did not pay the caller. Before a second call was received Palace informed the police of the first call and had an amplifier-recorder set up to overhear the conversation. The device was held next to the earpiece of the phone so that the receiver could still hear. There was no physical connection between the telephone and the...

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