Commonwealth v. Myers

How courts have described this case

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• thirteen-inch butcher knife which defendant carried while he was charging up a crowded street and threatening to kill another person had a common lawful purpose and thus defendant was not guilty of possession of prohibited offensive weapon

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• Commonwealth v. Karlson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-03-19· cited 29×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Cartagena
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Fisher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-05-01· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Ashford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-01-19· cited 27×