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COMMONWEALTH v. STEWART

449 Pa. 50 (1972)

Commonwealth v. Stewart, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

October 4, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman M. Yoffee, for appellant.

Marion E. MacIntyre, Deputy District Attorney, with him LeRoy S. Zimmerman, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY, NIX and MANDERINO, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE EAGEN, October 4, 1972:

This is a direct appeal from the judgment of sentence of life imprisonment imposed on Frederick Charles Stewart following his conviction by a jury in Dauphin County of murder in the first degree.1 We reverse and order a new trial.

Stewart was charged with killing his wife in a bar in Harrisburg by stabbing her with a butcher knife, and otherwise...

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