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Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 6/29/1979

Commonwealth v. Davis

Citations

  • 406 A.2d 1087
  • 267 Pa. Super. 370
  • 1979 Pa. Super. LEXIS 2518

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that a single punch causing multiple jaw fractures constituted serious bodily injury
  • holding that, because he failed to adhere to the timeliness requirements provided by the Rules of Criminal Procedure in relation to objecting to a jury array, Davis waived his claim that he was denied a fair trial due to the absence of African Americans on the jury panel.
  • taking into account the appellant’s overall conduct, as well as the serious injury inflicted, to conclude that the appellant’s single puneh to the victim’s face revealed extreme disregard of the value of human life and thus supported a conviction for aggravated assault
  • appellant found to have acted recklessly where he punched his girlfriend once in the face, chased her out of the house, broke the windshield of a car she had fled into, and then beat her again
  • appellant found to have acted recklessly where he punched his girlfriend once in the face, chased her out of the house, broke the windshield of a car she had fled into, and then beat her again
  • where victim suffered multiple fractures of her jaw, which was wired shut for six weeks, evidence was sufficient for conviction under statute defining “serious bodily injury” as, inter alla, “protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ”

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Judges: Cercone, Jacobs, Hoffman, Cer-Cone, Price, Spaeth, Hester

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