Commonwealth v. Corbin

Opinion by

Mr. .Justice Pomeroy,

This appeal challenges the propriety of the proceedings at the trial level wherein the judge who heard and decided, adversely to defendant, a motion to suppress an allegedly involuntary confession, then sat as the trier of fact at defendant’s nonjury trial.

Appellant, Ronald Corbin, was arrested shortly after midnight on March 20, 1970, in connection with the stabbing death earlier that evening of Charles Alexander in Philadelphia. Several hours after arrest, Cor-bin gave a formal statement to homicide detectives in which he confessed his role in the slaying.…