Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Axe

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 20, 1981No. 1025PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SPAETH, Judge:

This is an appeal from judgments of sentence for robbery1 and receiving stolen property.2 We have concluded that the judgment of sentence for receiving stolen property should be set aside for insufficient evidence,3 but that the judgment of sentence for robbery should be affirmed.

1

On January 2,1979, at about 11 p. m., two men committed a robbery at the North Sharon Fire Hall in Mercer County. The robbers took $1,000 in bingo receipts. The police found two sets of footprints in the snow, leading to the fire hall from a blue Pontiac, parked one block behind the hall. No footprints…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. GoosbySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1973
  2. Commonwealth v. MeyersSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1927
  3. Commonwealth v. PhillipsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1957
  4. Commonwealth v. StalloneSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1924
  5. Commonwealth v. MadisonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1979

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. StoresSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
  2. Commonwealth v. NicholsonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
  3. Commonwealth v. ByersSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
  4. Commonwealth v. DiNicolaSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
  5. Commonwealth v. TwilleySuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1992

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