Commonwealth v. Hartle

Opinion by

Wright, J.,

At or about eleven o’clock in the evening of June 16, 1961, on Route 45 in Union County, there was a violent collision between a Chevrolet automobile op erated by Robert A. Hartle, in wbicb Dean Neese was a passenger, and a Valiant automobile operated by Earl M. Maurer, in which his wife, Barbara P. Maurer, and his parents, Ernest L. Maurer and Beulah E. Maurer, were passengers. As a result of injuries sustained in this collision four persons died, namely, Dean Neese, Earl M. Maurer, Ernest L. Maurer, and Beulah E. Maurer. On March 12, 1962, the Grand Jury indicted Hartle…