Commonwealth v. Dickerson

OPINION OF THE COURT

JONES, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal1 by the Commonwealth from *602the Order of Judge Juanita Kidd Stout of the Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County suppressing the confession of William Dickerson, appellee, as the result of an unconstitutional arrest.

On October 5, 1974, at 4:45 p. m. William Askew, age seventeen, was stabbed to death in the rear yard of a home on Wyoming Avenue in Philadelphia. That same evening, Detective Porter, twice went to appellee’s home in an attempt to question him concerning the stabbing. Appellee was not home and Porter left word with his…