Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Kramer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 7, 1977No. 56PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
O’BRIEN, Justice.
Appellant, Terry D. Kramer, was tried by a judge and jury and convicted of voluntary manslaughter. Post-verdict motions were denied, and appellant was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of five to ten years. This appeal followed.
The facts are as follows. On October 11, 1967, Linda Carol Kramer, appellant’s ten-month-old daughter, was pronounced dead at the Pottstown Memorial Hospital. The Montgomery County Coroner ordered R. A. Schofield, M. D., to perform an autopsy and the Montgomery County Detective’s Office immediately began an investigation of the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Reynolds v. SimsSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Commonwealth v. RobsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1975
- Commonwealth v. ThomasSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1972
- Commonwealth v. BoydSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1975
- Commonwealth v. FellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1973
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3Cited by29 opinions
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- Latella v. CommonwealthCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
- Fischer v. Department of Public WelfareSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1985
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