Commonwealth v. Darden

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Eagen,

About 9:30 p.m. on Friday, February 9, 1968, following a high school basketball game in the city of Harrisburg, several fights broke out on the parking lot adjoining the gymnasium between groups of black and white boys. In one of these altercations, Frank J. Ament, Jr., a white boy fifteen years of age, suffered contusions of the face and head and a stab wound, in the back from a “sharp pointed instrument.” The last mentioned wound perforated one of the main arteries *43in the body, the subclavian artery, resulting in massive hemorrhaging in the right pleural cavity…