COM. v. CALDWELL


516 Pa. 441 (1987)

532 A.2d 813

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Christopher CALDWELL, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided October 16, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul R. Gettleman, Zelienople (court-appointed), for appellant.

Robert E. Colville, Dist. Atty., Robert L. Eberhardt, Deputy Dist. Atty., Christopher Conrad, Asst. Dist. Atty., Pittsburgh, for appellee.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, HUTCHINSON, ZAPPALA and PAPADAKOS, JJ.


OPINION

ZAPPALA, Justice.

On January 15, 1985, the bodies of Sara and Boykin Gibson, an elderly couple in their 80's, were discovered in their Pittsburgh home. The Gibsons were found seated in chairs facing together, separated by a distance of approximately seven feet, their arms bound to the chairs with clothesline. Their throats had been slashed, and they had been stabbed. The house was ransacked. The Appellant...

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