Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Irwin
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 18, 1975No. 70PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
EAGEN, Justice.
This is an appeal by Albert M. Irwin from the sentence of life imprisonment imposed upon him following his conviction by a jury in Allegheny County of murder in the first degree.
The sufficiency of the evidence to warrant the jury’s verdict is not challenged,1 but it is said two errors in the trial process mandate a new trial. Our discussion will be limited to one of these alleged errors since the other was not properly preserved in the trial court for appellate review.2
*299The one assignment of error properly before us concerns the admission into the trial…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Commonwealth v. AgieSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1972
- Commonwealth v. PetrakovichSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1974
- Commonwealth v. PowellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1968
- Commonwealth v. FordSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1973
- Commonwealth v. ScaramuzzinoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1974
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3Cited by22 opinions
- Commonwealth v. DeHartSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1986
- Commonwealth v. WatersSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1978
- Commonwealth of Pa. v. ColeySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1976
- Commonwealth v. StevensSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1975
- Commonwealth v. GonzalesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1975
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