Commonwealth v. Greevy
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 106, Oct. T., 1920, by defendant, from judgment and sentence by Q. S. of Blair County, Oct. T., 1919, No. 30, on verdict of guilty in the case of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Walter S. Greevy. Indictment for involuntary manslaughter. Before Baldrige, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion o? the Superior Court. Verdict of guilty on which judgment of sentence was passed. Defendant appealed.
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Appeal, No. 106, Oct. T., 1920, by defendant, from judgment and sentence by Q. S. of Blair County, Oct. T., 1919, No. 30, on verdict of guilty in the case of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Walter S. Greevy. Indictment for involuntary manslaughter. Before Baldrige, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion o? the Superior Court. Verdict of guilty on which judgment of sentence was passed. Defendant appealed. At the trial the defendant presented, inter alia, the following points: “The evidence of the Commonwealth in this case, being identically the same as that offered by it in the indictment…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Porter, J.,
The trial of the defendant in the court below, upon an indictment charging involuntary manslaughter, resulted in a conviction. When called upon to plead to the indictment he filed a special plea in bar setting forth that he had been indicted in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Blair County upon a charge of murder for the same killing, to which indictment he had entered the plea of not guilty, upon which plea the Commonwealth joined issue; that upon the trial of that issue the jury rendered a verdict of not guilty; that the offense charged in the said former indictment…
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