Commonwealth v. Thomas

How courts have described this case

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

• corpus delicti consists of occurrence of specific kind of injury charged, and someone’s criminality as source of such injury, and proof of accused’s agency as doer of crime does not form part of corpus delicti, but is essential requisite in order to convict
• corpus delicti consists of occurrence of specific kind of injury charged, and someone's criminality as source of such injury, and proof of accused's agency as doer of crime does not form part of corpus delicti, but is essential requisite in order to convict

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Rhoads
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-09-19· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Conard
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1965-06-17· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-11-11· cited 12×
• City of Easley v. Portman
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1997-07-21· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Keating
  Bucks County Court of Common Pleas· 1968-07-17

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Clinton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1958-01-16· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Ballem
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1956-06-25· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Bryant
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1951-03-21· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Godfrey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-03-24· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Ricci
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-03-24· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Narr
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1953-04-14· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Tonty
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-07-21· cited 3×