DocketNumber: Appeal 17 Eastern Dist. Appeal Docket, 1985
Citation Numbers: 506 A.2d 895, 509 Pa. 620
Judges: Flaherty, Hutchinson, Larsen, McDER-MOTT, Nix, Papadakos, Zappala
Filed Date: 3/31/1986
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 8/26/2023
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
John W. Packel, Chief/Appeals Div., Asst. Public Defender, Jules Epstein, Philadelphia, for appellant.
Robert B. Lawler, Chief/Appeals Div., Eric B. Henson, Jane Cutler Greenspan, Asst. Dist. Attys., for appellee.
Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, HUTCHINSON, ZAPPALA and PAPADAKOS, JJ.
PER CURIAM.
Appeal dismissed as having been improvidently granted.
ZAPPALA, J., files a dissenting statement.
ZAPPALA, Justice, dissenting.
Not only would I reach the merits of this appeal, but I would reverse the Appellant's conviction and grant him a new trial. It is clear from the record that the trial judge exceeded his proper duty by his extensive interrogation of the Appellant. Commonwealth v. Myma, 278 Pa. 505, 123 A. 486 (1924). See Commonwealth v. Britton, 334 Pa.Super. 203, 222, 482 A.2d 1294, 1304 (1984) (dissenting opinion of Spaeth, P.J.).
Commonwealth v. King , 378 Pa. Super. 553 ( 1988 )
Commonwealth v. McSorley , 509 Pa. 621 ( 1986 )
Commonwealth v. Elrod , 392 Pa. Super. 274 ( 1990 )
Commonwealth v. Wallace , 368 Pa. Super. 255 ( 1987 )
Commonwealth v. Greer , 382 Pa. Super. 127 ( 1989 )
Commonwealth v. Klinger , 369 Pa. Super. 526 ( 1987 )
Commonwealth v. Cain , 432 Pa. Super. 47 ( 1994 )
Commonwealth v. Grier , 410 Pa. Super. 284 ( 1991 )
Commonwealth v. Anderson , 434 Pa. Super. 309 ( 1994 )
Commonwealth v. Hartz , 367 Pa. Super. 267 ( 1987 )