Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Thomas

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 19, 1973No. Appeal, 484PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice O’Brien,

On September 29, 1969, at approximately 9:15 p.m., Karolyn Miller, a student at Temple University, was walking with a friend down Pine Street toward Tenth Street in Philadelphia. In Miss Miller’s words: “A. . . . We were walking towards 10th Street and there were two boys, teenage Negro boys coming towards us and, as we stepped off the curb in the small street, and they stepped up the curb. The two of them split and they walked around behind us and I thought something was going to happen. Q. You can’t tell us what you thought. But you saw them split, which I take…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Commonwealth v. GarrettSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1966

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. KeblitisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
  2. Commonwealth v. CarterSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
  3. Commonwealth v. MooreSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1973
  4. Commonwealth v. PetersonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
  5. Commonwealth v. CarterSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984

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