Commonwealth v. Thatcher

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• holding that the Act of March 31, 1860, P.L. 427, § 51, 19 P.S. § 831 prohibits retrial on a charge of murder based on the same homicide of which one has been acquitted of involuntary manslaughter.
• holding that the Act of March 31, 1860, P.L. 427, § 51, 19 P.S. § 831 prohibits retrial on a charge of murder based on the same homicide of which one has been acquitted of involuntary manslaughter.
• barring the classic successive prosecution scenario; finding double jeopardy clause precluded a prosecution on murder and voluntary manslaughter charges that were based on the same facts as an involuntary manslaughter charge of which defendant was acquitted in a former prosecution

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