Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Carpenter
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided January 26, 1999No. 178 Capital Appeal DocketPublishedCited by 134 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*440 OPINION
NEWMAN, Justice.
James Henry Carpenter (Appellant) appeals from the orders of the Court of Common Pleas of York County (PCRA court) that denied his petition for relief under the Post Conviction Relief Act.
I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
Evidence adduced at Appellant’s trial revealed that on September 30, 1983, Jimmie Lee Taylor (victim) was stabbed in the heart on South Penn Street in the City of York. He was pronounced dead at York Hospital at 10:58 p.m. that evening. The victim was found to have had a blood alcohol content of .356 percent.
The Commonwealth’s principal witness at…
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