Commonwealth v. LaCourt

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Pomeroy,

Jose LaCourt, the appellant, was tried in 1963 before a judge and a jury on indictments charging murder and involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death by stabbing of one Harvey Harvin. No two accounts of Harvin’s death coincided, but from the record, the following appears with some degree of certainty.

On Sunday afternoon, March 18, 1962, the deceased and his friend Ben Thomas went to Evelyn’s Hoagie Shop in Philadelphia. A dispute soon developed between Harvin and another boy over the use of a pinball machine. Appellant, as manager of the store and…