Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Devlin
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 18, 1975No. 345PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
JONES, Chief Justice.
The appellant was found guilty of sodomy by a jury. The victim was a twenty-two year old retarded man who had the mental ability of a first or second grade child and the emotional stability of an even younger child. The sole issue in this case is whether the Commonwealth proved the date of the crime with sufficient particularity to uphold the conviction. The only proof at trial was that the crime occurred some time within a fourteen-month period from February 1971 to April 1972. On this issue of first impression in this Court, we granted allocatur and…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Twining v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Hoag v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1958
- Brock v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Gibbs v. BurkeSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- United States of America Ex Rel. Alvin R. Drew v. David N. Myers, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Graterford, PennsylvaniaCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1964
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3Cited by63 opinions
- Commonwealth v. KarkariaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1993
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- Commonwealth v. NiemetzSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1980
- Commonwealth v. EinhornSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2006
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