Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Tinson

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 15, 1969No. Appeal, 118Published

1Opinion of the Court

433 Pa. 328 (1969)

Commonwealth

v.

Tinson, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Submitted November 11, 1968.

January 15, 1969.

Before BELL, C.J., JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.

P. Richard Klein, and Corliss & Klein, for appellant.

Joseph R. Polito, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, and Norman J. Pine, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, January 15, 1969:

In 1959 appellant entered a plea of guilty to voluntary manslaughter on an indictment charging murder and was sentenced to five-to-twelve years in prison. Appellant was paroled after serving…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Mempa v. RhaySupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. McConnell v. RhaySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  3. Commonwealth Ex Rel. O'Lock v. RundleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1964
  4. Commonwealth v. StokesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1967
  5. Commonwealth v. TinsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1969

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