Commonwealth v. Skufca

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Nix,

Appellant, Luella Skufca, was convicted by a jury of involuntary manslaughter and of violating §727 of the Act of June 24, 1989, P. L. 872, 18 P.S. §4727. Post-trial motions were denied and an indeterminate sentence not to exceed two years in the Women’s Correctional Institution at Muncy was imposed.1 The Superior Court affirmed without dissent and after the grant of allocatur we now affirm.

On the evening of January 23 and the early morning hours of January 24, 1970, appellant left her two minor children (the oldest child was three (3) years of age and the youngest…