Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Walter

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 22, 1976No. Appeals, 419, 420, and 421PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Jacobs, J.,

These appeals were brought by the parents of two young men who were killed when struck by a car driven by William F. Walter. Two appeals were brought from orders of the lower court denying petitions to replace the district attorney with a private counsel employed by the parents and one appeal was from the judgment of sentence imposed on William Walter. We affirm the lower court’s ruling on all these matters.

According to the sketchy facts testified to at the guilty plea hearing in this case, it appears that the defendant, William Walter, was driving north on a highway in…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. McHaleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1881
  2. Smith v. GallagherSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1962
  3. Dauphin County Grand Jury Investigation ProceedingsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1938
  4. Commonwealth v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1968
  5. Harwood v. Bruhn Et UxSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1933

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. FordSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
  2. Commonwealth v. HessSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1985
  3. In Re HicksonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2000
  4. Weisman v. SherryDistrict Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 1981
  5. Commonwealth v. FordSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983

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