Commonwealth v. Owens

How courts have described this case

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• concluding defendant took substantial step toward attempted rape when he forcibly led child into garage and removed her clothing but stopped whenever an adult entered the garage
• substantial -7- J-S74012-17 step towards attempted rape where appellant forcibly led child into garage and removed her clothing but stopped attempt when woman entered garage
• conviction for attempted rape upheld where defendant hit a seven year old child, forced her into a garage, removed her clothes and unzipped his pants before a neighbor interceded by entering the garage
• evidence was sufficient to support conviction of attempted rape where defendant forced the 7-year-old victim into a vacant garage, struck her, and removed her clothing but stopped attempt when a passerby entered garage

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-01-20· cited 164×
• Commonwealth v. Underwood
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-09-27· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Button
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-08-03· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Sparks
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-05-10· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Newman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-01-06· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Bright
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-02-24· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Parker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-07-14· cited 11×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
• Commonwealth v. Garvin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-06-28· cited 218×
• Rosche v. McCoy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-11-25· cited 173×
• Commonwealth v. Oates
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-10-04· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-03-21· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Harley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-01-11· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Morrison
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-04-19· cited 17×