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COMMONWEALTH v. BARNES

448 Pa. 299 (1972)

Commonwealth v. Barnes, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 28, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven M. Dranoff, with him Spivack & Dranoff, for appellant.

Judith Dean, Assistant District Attorney, with her Milton M. Stein, Assistant District Attorney, James D. Crawford, Deputy District Attorney, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, NIX and MANDERINO, JJ.

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

We are today asked to determine the proper construction of Section 410(c)1 of the Mental Health and Mental Retardation Act of 1966.2 The issue presented is this: After having plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter, the defendant is committed under Section 410(c) to a state mental hospital for a period not to exceed six...

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