Commonwealth v. Uhrinek

OPINION OF THE COURT

STOUT, Justice.

John D. Uhrinek appeals from the decision of the Superior Court that affirmed his jury conviction for homicide by vehicle, 363 Pa.Super. 643, 522 A.2d 663.1 Because the trial court excluded evidence of the intoxication of the *534deceased pedestrian, which was relevant to appellant’s theory of the cause of the accident, we reverse his homicide by vehicle conviction and remand for a new trial.2

At approximately one o’clock on the morning of October 6, 1984, appellant was driving east on Oakland Avenue in Indiana Borough. Oakland Avenue is located in the center of…