Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1/29/1976

Commonwealth v. Baker

Citations

353 A.2d 406
466 Pa. 382
91 A.L.R. 3d 367
1976 Pa. LEXIS 500

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explaining “jurors may tend to overemphasize the importance of the matters” in a written charge “and possibly ignore the totality of the oral charge”
explaining “jurors may tend to overemphasize the importance of the matters” in a written charge “and possibly ignore the totality of the oral charge”
labeling the moral character of a witness romantically linked to defendant as “too hot to trot and still burning” where that relationship supplied a motive for defendant’s murder of his wife; making reference to the defendant’s “bloody hands”.
testimony which constituted instances of abuse in the chain of evidence produced by Commonwealth admissible to establish malice
dissenting opinion of Roberts, J.
dissenting opinion of Roberts, J.

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Judges: Jones, Eagen, Nix, O'Brien, Roberts, Pomeroy, Manderino, Eagén

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