Commonwealth v. Ruff

How courts have described this case

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• may reduce murder from first to third degree, but may not negate “malice”—reckless disregard of human life—element of third degree murder
• “[E]vidence of voluntary intoxication could reduce murder of the first degree to murder of the third degree, but could not reduce murder of the third degree to manslaughter.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Laing
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-04· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Reed
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-12-06· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Rumsey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-01-07· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. McConnell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-11-06· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Baylor
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-30· cited 3×