COMMONWEALTH v. SPECTOR

No. 2441 January term, 1987.

2 Pa. D. & C. 4th 319 (1989)

Commonwealth v. Spector

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

January 9, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Cameron, assistant district attorney, for the commonwealth.

Joel Harvey Slomsky, for defendant.


BERNSTEIN, J., January 9, 1989.

Soon after one picks up man's trail in the earliest campfire or chipped stone tool one finds evidence of interests and anxieties that have no animal counterpart; in particular, a ceremonious concern for the dead, manifested in their deliberate burial — with growing evidence of pious apprehension and dread.1

Whether one believes an immortal soul inhabits the body as its holy...

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