Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 10/3/1975
Commonwealth v. Jackson
Citations
- 344 A.2d 842
- 463 Pa. 301
- 1975 Pa. LEXIS 992
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- admissibility of prior testimony is within the discretion of the trial judge when there is a question of sufficiency of preliminary proof as to the absence of a witness
- “We also cannot accept appellant’s argument that his conviction, premised on the existence of a conspiracy, cannot stand where the person who allegedly perpetrated the homicide has been judged not guilty.”
- good-faith effort shown and prior testimony was properly admitted where Commonwealth had notified witness’s grandmother that he would be called as a witness, she had witness released to her custody, and witness absconded
- admissibility of prior testimony within discretion of trial judge
- admissibility of prior testimony within discretion of trial judge
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Jones, Eagen, O'Brien, Roberts, Pomeroy, Nix, Manderino
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10 cases in this archive cite this case.
- Commonwealth v. Cruz-CentenoSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-12-04· cited 332×
- Commonwealth v. WayneSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-29· cited 132×
- Warren v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1981-10-09· cited 85×
- Commonwealth v. BrownSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-07-08· cited 39×
- Commonwealth v. DouglasSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-07-27· cited 36×
- Cooper v. Downingtown School DistrictSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-02-02· cited 22×
- Commonwealth v. GallowaySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 14×
- Commonwealth v. ConnorsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-11· cited 6×
- Commonwealth v. GriffinSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-09-27· cited 4×
- Commonwealth v. PalLackawanna County Court of Common Pleas· 2015-01-09· cited 1×
Cites
14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Pointer v. TexasSupreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 4,761×
- California v. GreenSupreme Court· 1970-06-23· cited 3,363×
- Barber v. PageSupreme Court· 1968-04-29· cited 1,846×
- Mancusi v. StubbsSupreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 704×
- Commonwealth v. BlairSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 461×
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 36×
- Commonwealth v. VaughnSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 27×
- Commonwealth v. PierceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-03-20· cited 27×
- Commonwealth v. MillerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-06-11· cited 21×
- Commonwealth v. FaisonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-05-23· cited 17×
- Commonwealth v. BeachSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-12-20· cited 13×
- Commonwealth v. FigueroaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-07-01· cited 8×
- United States of America Ex Rel. John Oliver v. Alfred T. Rundle, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Graterford, PennsylvaniaThird Circuit· 1969-10-24· cited 7×
- Commonwealth v. TownesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-18· cited 6×
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