Commonwealth v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• holding when Commonwealth “does specify, in the information . . ., the crime defendant intended to commit, the Commonwealth must prove the requisite intent for that particular crime in order to prove a burglary or attempted burglary.”
• stating that “[w]hen the Commonwealth does specify, in the information or indictment, the crime defendant intended to commit, the Commonwealth must prove the requisite intent for that particular crime in order to prove a burglary or attempted burglary.”
• “When the Commonwealth does specify, in the information or indictment, the crime defendant intended to commit, the Commonwealth must prove the requisite intent for that particular crime in order to prove a burglary or attempted burglary.”
• “the Commonwealth is not required to specify what crime a defendant, who is charged with burglary (or attempted burglary), was intending to commit. Further, the Commonwealth need not prove the underlying crime to sustain a burglary conviction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-28· cited 162×
• Miller v. Beard
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2016-10-05· cited 6×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Magliocco
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-09-28· cited 108×
• Commonwealth v. Alston
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-12-28· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Vetrini
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-06-15· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Madison
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-02-09· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Gonzales
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-28· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Jacobs
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-04-19· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Morgan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-04-12· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Von Aczel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-09-18· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Lease
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-11-25· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Magliocco
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-09-11· cited 20×