Commonwealth v. Vogel

How courts have described this case

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• holding that arrest of judgment is the proper remedy at law when the evidence presented is insufficient to support a conviction
• reaffirming view that sanity was not necessarily an element of the crime but may relate solely to whether the accused possessed sufficient awareness to be deemed criminally responsible
• reaffirming view that sanity was not necessarily an element of the crime but may relate solely to whether the accused possessed sufficient awareness to be deemed criminally responsible
• counsel’s inadequacy for failure to press for change of venue did not warrant new trial absent prejudice to defendant’s fair trial rights

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).