Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Jones

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 4, 1980No. 1252PublishedCited by 15 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HESTER, Judge:

Appellant Robert Earl Jones brings this appeal from an Order denying a pre-trial application to quash a Bill of Information on the ground of double jeopardy. We affirm the Order and remand for trial.

By a single Information dated September 7, 1977, the District Attorney of Chester County charged appellant with two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault, and three counts of simple assault, all evolving from an incident with the victim, a middle-aged woman, on the afternoon of August 17, 1977. The six counts charged substantially as follows:

Count One: Rape by forcible…

2Cases cited46 opinions

  1. Blockburger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
  2. North Carolina v. PearceSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  3. Ashe v. SwensonSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  4. Brown v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  5. Green v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957

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3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. BoernerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1980
  2. Ferrell v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1990
  3. Commonwealth v. HarrisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1990
  4. Commonwealth v. JenschSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
  5. Commonwealth v. HicksonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1990

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