Case ID: pa_502/html/0153-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

465 A.2d 636
    COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Joseph Anthony HINES, Appellant.
    Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
    Submitted April 28, 1983.
    Decided Sept. 22, 1983.
    
      Leon W. Tucker, Philadelphia (Court-appointed), for appellant.
    Robert B. Lawler, Chief, Appeals Div. Asst. Dist. Atty., Leslie Sudock, Philadelphia, for appellee.
    Before ROBERTS, C.J., and NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDermott, hutchinson and zappala, jj.
   ORDER OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM.

This is a direct appeal from a Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas judgment of sentence for voluntary manslaughter and possessing an instrument of crime. Appellant’s contentions are: (1) his signed statement made to police should have been suppressed as involuntary; (2) the Commonwealth failed to establish that the statement recorded by one police officer was identical to the statement read to appellant by a second police officer before appellant signed it; and (3) the evidence was insufficient to support a voluntary manslaughter verdict. We have reviewed the record in this case and find appellant’s contentions lack merit.

Judgment of sentence affirmed.