Commonwealth v. Pettie

How courts have described this case

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

• authorities’ failure to test for presence of drugs in alleged murder victim’s body is relevant when defendant claimed death was caused by overdose
• defendant convicted of manslaughter where expert testified that combination of alcohol and sleeping pills would be expected to result in death
• judge sua sponte properly interrupted defense counsel’s argument, which was not supported by evidence or inferences fairly drawn therefrom
• defendant convicted of manslaughter where expert testified that combination of alcohol and sleeping pills would be expected to result in death

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).