Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Rhodes

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided June 23, 1986No. Nos. 888 and 889PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OLSZEWSKI, Judge:

This appeal comes before us on behalf of the Commonwealth challenging the decision of the lower court to sustain appellees’ demurrer to charges of attempted burglary and possession of instruments of a crime. For the reasons to be discussed, we find it necessary to affirm the judgment and dismiss the Commonwealth’s appeal.

In moving for a demurrer, appellees admitted all the facts which the Commonwealth’s evidence tended to prove and all inferences reasonably deducible from those facts. Commonwealth v. Wimberly, 488 Pa. 169, 411 A.2d 1193 (1979); Commonwealth v. Long, 467 Pa.…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Smalis v. PennsylvaniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  2. Commonwealth v. WimberlySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1979
  3. Commonwealth v. LongSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1976

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. MercadoSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1994
  2. Commonwealth v. Houck, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Adams County1987

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