Commonwealth v. Smith

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• insufficient evidence of constructive possession where the appellant’s conviction rested solely on contraband found in the bedroom of the residence’s owner which was not accessible to the appellant
• defendant lived with his brother and sister-in-law; defendant did not constructively possess drugs found in home because most of them were in the brother’s bedroom and there was no evidence that defendant had access to the bedroom

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• Commonwealth v. Koch
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-09-16· cited 369×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. MacOlino
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-27· cited 227×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-01-20· cited 164×
• Commonwealth v. Reece
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-03-20· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Samuels
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-06-24· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. DeCampli
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-09-27· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Stokes
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-01-19· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Hoetzel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-02-20· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Gilchrist
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-05-23· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. MAURER
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-04-22· cited 6×