Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Brown
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided November 26, 1975No. 56PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
O’BRIEN, Justice.
Appellant, Rhodolphus Donald Brown, was tried by a judge and jury and found guilty of forcible rape and corrupting the morals of a minor. Post-trial motions were denied and appellant was sentenced to a term of five to fifteen years for the rape conviction and sentence was suspended on his conviction for corrupting the morals of a minor. The Superior Court affirmed appellant’s judgment of sentence by a three-to-two decision. See Commonwealth v. Brown, 228 Pa.Super. 166, 323 A.2d 281 (1974). We granted appellant’s petition for allowance of appeal and now…
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3Cited by27 opinions
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