Commonwealth v. Bey

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• defendant who failed to return to prison after three-day furlough was “under restraint” while on furlough and “escaped when he failed to return from the furlough’
• “Any person who, being lawfully confined or in custody, regains his freedom, with or without force, before being lawfully discharged, is guilty of an escape[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Smith
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1978-08-21· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Barone
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-01-25· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Gladden
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-16· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Trainor
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-28· cited 19×
• Slaughter v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1981-06-12· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Stumpo
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-11-19· cited 16×
• State v. Roundstone
  Montana Supreme Court· 2011-09-14· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Hartzell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-12-01· cited 10×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1976-06-16· cited 8×
• State v. Paris.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2016-08-08· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Webb
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-28· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Irish
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-02-02· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-06-24
• Commonwealth v. Muscati
  Cumberland County Court of Common Pleas· 1977-05-27

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Green
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-09-15· cited 15×
• Com. v. Adams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1896-12-07· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Hearn
  Bucks County Court of Quarter Sessions· 1964-06-26· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Mckee
  Centre County Court of Quarter Sessions· 1966-04-19· cited 1×