COM. v. BATTY


482 Pa. 173 (1978)

393 A.2d 435

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Warner BATTY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided October 27, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Bruce Evanick, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Daniel Wolfson, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.

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


OPINION OF THE COURT

EAGEN, Chief Justice.

The facts of this case may be summarized as follows:

On February 1, 1975, at a time when appellant, Warner Batty, was fifteen years of age, he and an eighteen-year-old companion, Donald Rivera, forced a young woman they had encountered along a city street to accompany them to an abandoned property in York, Pennsylvania. Although it was cold and there was no heat in the building into which she was taken,...

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