Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Carpenter
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided September 25, 1986No. 9 M.D. Appeal Docket 1985PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
LARSEN, Justice.
James Henry Carpenter, appellant, brings this appeal from his conviction for murder of the first degree and from the judgment of sentence of death imposed by a jury upon that conviction. 1 The record of his trial in the Court of Common Pleas of York County disclosed the following.
On September 30, 1983, at approximately 9:30 p.m., Jimmie Lee Taylor (the victim) was stabbed in the heart with a knife on South Penn Street in the City of York. The victim was intoxicated and had a blood alcohol content of .356 per cent. He was pronounced dead at the York Hospital…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. FreySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
- Commonwealth v. AllenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1972
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3Cited by105 opinions
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