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Commonwealth v. Whiting

Citations

  • 409 Pa. 492
  • 187 A.2d 563
  • 1963 Pa. LEXIS 696

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding hurried exit from crime scene and subsequent false and misleading statements to police indicate consciousness of guilt
  • alibi instruction unnecessary where defendant admitted being in proximity to the crime scene at the time in question
  • \Alibi is a defense that places the defendant at the relevant time in a different place than the scene involved and so removed therefrom as to render it impossible for him to be the guilty party.\
  • alibi is “a defense that places the defendant at the relevant time in a different place than the scene involved and so removed therefrom as to render it impossible for him to be the guilty party”
  • alibi is \a defense that places the defendant at the relevant time in a different place than the scene involved and so removed therefrom as to render it impossible for him to be the guilty party\
  • “[a]libi is a defense that places the defendant at the relevant time in a different place than the scene involved and so removed therefrom as to render it impossible for him to be the guilty party”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Bell, Musmanno, Jones, Cohen, Eagen, O'Brien, Keim

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