Commonwealth v. Greer

Opinion by

Van der Voort, J.,

The instant appeal was taken by the Commonwealth following the lower court’s action in sustaining a defense demurrer at the conclusion of the presentation of the Commonwealth’s case. The appellee, David Greer, was charged with involuntary manslaughter after a passenger in his automobile was killed in a traffic accident. The accident in question occurred on June 2, 1972 on a bridge in Pittsburgh. The record shows that the appellee, then aged 20, was driving two young girls home from a birthday party at approximately 11:20 P.M. His sixteen year old male friend, the…