Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 9/19/1973

Commonwealth v. Hickman

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453 Pa. 427
309 A.2d 564
1973 Pa. LEXIS 689

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holding that police lieutenant’s testimony that two of eighty bullets found in a bullet trap came from the murder weapon was not proper rebuttal evidence because it did not actually rebut defendant’s evidence that he had never owned a gun of the murder weapon’s type
stating that, in every criminal case, “[p]roof beyond a reasonable doubt of the identity of the accused as the person who committed the crime is essential to a conviction.”
\Evidence is relevant if it tends to establish some fact material to the case or tends to make facts at issue more or less probable.\
“Evidence is relevant if it tends to establish some fact material to the case or tends to make facts at issue more or less probable.”
“Evidence is relevant if it tends to establish some material fact to the ease or tends to make facts at issue more or less probable.”
“It is not proper to submit on rebuttal, evidence which does not in fact rebut the opponent's evidence.”

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

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