COM. v. CARR


398 Pa.Super. 306 (1990)

580 A.2d 1362

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Stephen Roy CARR, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed September 24, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael George, Gettysburg, for appellant.

Roy A. Keffer, Asst. Dist. Atty., Gettysburg, for Com., appellee.

Before WIEAND, TAMILIA and POPOVICH, JJ.


WIEAND, Judge:

In this appeal from a sentence of life imprisonment imposed for murder of the first degree, the principal issue is whether the trial court erred when it disallowed evidence of the defendant's psychosexual history to show the likelihood of a killing in the heat of passion aroused by defendant's observation of two women engaged in homosexual lovemaking.

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