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COMMONWEALTH v. DAVIS

449 Pa. 468 (1972)

Commonwealth v. Davis, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 30, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. Raymond Kremer, with him Neil H. Stein and Kremer, Krimsky & Luterman, 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 JONES, C.J., EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY and MANDERINO, JJ.

OPINION PER CURIAM, November 30, 1972:

Judgment of sentence affirmed by an evenly divided Court.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE O'BRIEN IN SUPPORT OF AFFIRMANCE:

Some time in the morning of July 21, 1967, Mrs. Hattie Stirling discovered the dead body of her daughter, nine-year-old Vintress Stirling, in the apartment which Mrs. Sterling and Vintress shared with Mrs. Stirling's three younger children. The police, summoned by an aunt of the deceased, arrived...

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