COMMONWEALTH v. LaCOURT


448 Pa. 86 (1972)

Commonwealth v. LaCourt, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 28, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara Bailey and John W. Packel, Assistant Defenders, and Vincent J. Ziccardi, Defender, for appellant.

Bonnie Brigance Leadbetter and Milton M. Stein, Assistant District Attorneys, James D. Crawford, Deputy District Attorney, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before JONES, EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS and POMEROY, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE POMEROY, June 28, 1972:

Jose LaCourt, the appellant, was tried in 1963 before a judge and a jury on indictments charging murder and involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death by stabbing of one Harvey Harvin. No two accounts of Harvin's death coincided, but from the record, the following appears with some degree of certainty.

On Sunday afternoon, March 18, 1962, the deceased and his friend Ben Thomas went to Evelyn's Hoagie...

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