Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Hilbert
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided January 26, 1978No. 106PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
O’BRIEN, Justice.
In 1972, appellant, Clara Marie Hilbert, was convicted of murder of the second degree in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County. The evidence establishes that during the evening of December 20, 1971, Hilbert appeared at a police station in Pittsburgh and reported that a man was badly hurt nearby. Officers accompanied her to the scene and found one Lawrence Burr in a car. Burr was badly injured as a result of several stab wounds. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead on arrival. An autopsy confirmed that the stab wounds were the cause of death. Police…
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3Cited by62 opinions
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