Commonwealth v. Turra

Opinion by

Me. Justice Eagen,

This is an appeal by the Commonwealth from an order entered in the court below suppressing evidence of an oral incriminating admission, allegedly made by Rocco Turra, who is awaiting trial in Philadelphia on indictments charging him with murder and other related crimes.

The facts necessary to a disposition of the present appeal are not in dispute and may be summarized as follows:

Turra’s trial was listed for November 16, 1970. In the course of a pretrial statement to the court, outlining the Commonwealth’s case, the assistant district attorney disclosed that the…