Commonwealth v. Myers

How courts have described this case

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

• evidence that defendant fired high-powered rifle at sign across frequently travelled road supports conviction for involuntary manslaughter
• trial court properly found manifest necessity and declared mistrial when judicial inquiry confirmed jury had deadlocked on one issue after three hours; second trial did not subject appellant to double jeopardy
• three hours on one issue; total of seven hours of deliberations
• 7 hours for involuntary manslaughter

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Barren
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-07· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Graves
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-04· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-01-20· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Story
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-09-19· cited 4×
• Bishop v. Mazurkiewicz
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 1980-02-25· cited 3×