Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. D'NICUOLA
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided June 28, 1972No. Appeal, 33PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. J ustice Nix,
Appellant, Thomas D’Nicuola, was arrested on October 22, 1969, and charged with the murder of Thomas Effting. D’Nicuola had been discovered in his automobile on October 20, 1969, by the Easton police in a comatose condition due to an overdose of the drug Doriden, a tranquilizer. At the time he was found in the vehicle, the police also discovered and seized a revolver that had recently been fired three times. It was later determined that this weapon had fired the bullets found in Effting’s body.
On October 21, 1969, while a patient in Easton Hospital, D’Nicuola was…
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3Cited by48 opinions
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