Girard Clarification Petition

Dissenting Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Bell :

I very strongly disagree with the majority, the concurring and the dissenting Opinions. With respect to the concurring Opinion, the law is contrary thereto: Lawler v. Commonwealth, 347 Pa. 568, 33 A. 2d 432; Crawford’s Estate, 313 Pa. 127, 169 A. 438. The dissenting Opinion by Mr. Justice Musmanno merely restates the views and contentions which, as the sole dissenting Judge in the two prior decisions of this Court, he had previously expressed in those decisions. The majority Opinion states that it would be highly inappropriate for this Court to…