COMMONWEALTH v. SHAFFER et al.


447 Pa. 91 (1972)

Commonwealth v. Shaffer et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 20, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David E. Auerbach, Assistant Public Defender, for appellants.

Vram Nedurian, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, with him Ralph B. D'Iorio and J. Harold Hughes, Assistant District Attorneys, and Stephen J. McEwen, Jr., District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

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


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE EAGEN, March 20, 1972:

On October 23, 1968, the residences of Edith N. Caroll and Wilhelmina Madden in Delaware County were broken into and ransacked. In each instance various pieces of valuable jewelry were stolen. Subsequently, Frank J. Crutchley, Joseph E. Shaffer, Michael P. Dougherty and John A. Shaffer were arrested and charged with committing these burglaries. The four were later jointly indicted in bills charging burglary of the two...

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