Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Brown
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided September 19, 1997No. Nos. 01157 and 01158PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CERCONE, President Judge Emeritus.
This is a consolidated interlocutory appeal as of right from two pre-trial orders entered by the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County. See Pa. R.A.P., Rule 311(d), 42 Pa.C.S.A. (Commonwealth Appeals in Criminal Cases).1 We affirm and remand for trial.
The Pennsylvania State Police arrested ap-pellee, Samuel Elton Brown, on January 17, 1996 for participating in the murder of Ada Darlene Lumley. Ms. Lumley was last seen in early January of 1967. On January 21, 1967, the victim’s frozen body was discovered in an abandoned strip mine located in Butler County,…
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- Commonwealth v. DeWittSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1992
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3Cited by16 opinions
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