Commonwealth v. Butler

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that evidence was sufficient to support conviction of carrying concealed firearm without a license under predecessor to section 6106(a)(1) where gun was partly visible from jacket pocket of defendant
• holding that the manner by which the defendant carried the weapon in his pocket coupled with the defendant’s efforts to conceal the weapon by passing it to his wife when police approached were sufficient to constitute concealment
• Butler had attempted to conceal the gun from police officers by passing it to his wife
• Butler had attempted to conceal the gun from police officers by passing it to his wife
• whether a partially hidden weapon was “concealed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Williams
  Utah Supreme Court· 1981-10-14· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Duncan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-07-01· cited 40×
• People v. Johnnie W. Jones
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1968-06-28· cited 30×
• Gardner v. Jenkins
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-05-11· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Horshaw
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-28· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Lee
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1980-09-17· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Ray
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-12-10· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-12-17· cited 14×
• State v. Hettrick
  Washington Supreme Court· 1965-10-28· cited 10×
• Pennsylvania State Police v. McPherson
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-08· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Berta
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-09-02· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Pope
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-27· cited 9×
• State v. Umbrello
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1965-06-30· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Pressel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-09-13· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Sacco
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-08-05· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Levy
  Lackawanna County Court of Quarter Sessions· 1961-10-27· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Montgomery, D., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-07-21
• Commonwealth v. Carney
  Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas· 1972-05-15
• Commonwealth v. Hossler
  Lancaster County Court of Quarter Sessions· 1962-01-26
• Commonwealth v. Frisby
  Delaware County Court of Common Pleas· 1972-02-04

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Aikens
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-11-16· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Mason
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-03-14· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Paul
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-01-14· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. YASTE
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1950-01-12· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Stone
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1958-09-11· cited 18×
• State v. Bias
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1885-03-15· cited 3×