Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Whitehouse

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided June 15, 1972No. Appeal, 85PublishedCited by 34 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence of the Court of Common Pleas, Criminal Division, of Mercer County, by the defendant-appellant, Richard Louis Whitehouse, after conviction before a Judge without a jury on three counts of burglary and larceny.

The question before this Court, on appeal, is the admission of certain incriminating admissions made by the defendant to police officers after the service of a search warrant found by the court below to be illegal for want of probable cause after a Suppression Hearing.

The Order of Suppression reads as follows:

“Order
“And…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. United States v. VentrescaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
  2. Draper v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
  3. United States v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  4. Com. Ex Rel. Paige v. Smith, WardenSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1938
  5. Commonwealth v. CrawleySuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1966

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3Cited by34 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. KlineSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1975
  2. Commonwealth v. StokesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1978
  3. Emerick v. CarsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
  4. Commonwealth v. HintonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1979
  5. Commonwealth v. PriceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983

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