Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Hawkins
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided June 28, 1972No. Appeal, 439PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Eagen,
Frank Hawkins was convicted by a jury of voluntary manslaughter.1 From the judgment of sentence, this appeal was filed. We affirm.
The principal claim of error is the trial court’s denial of a pretrial motion to suppress a statement given by Hawkins to the police and in permitting evidence of this statement to be used at trial. The record discloses the following pertinent facts.
About 10:15 p.m., on May 22, 1970, Moses Howell was shot in a North Philadelphia bar and died sixteen days later. Death was due to a wound caused by a bullet which entered the abdomen about…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Butler v. RundleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1968
- William Joseph Coughlan v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1968
- Commonwealth v. FaisonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1970
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3Cited by56 opinions
- Commonwealth v. SimmonsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1995
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1995
- Christian v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1978
- Commonwealth v. HilliardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
- Commonwealth v. DuffeySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1988
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