Case ID: pa-super_213/html/0462-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam, Montgomery, J.:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Commonwealth, Appellant, v. Frankhouser.
    Argued November 11, 1968.
    Before Wright, P. J., Watkins, Montgomery, Jacobs, Hoffman, Spaulding, and Hannum, JJ.
    
      R. Lee Ziegler, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellant.
    
      Larry F. Knepp, for appellee.
    December 6, 1968:
   Opinion

Per Curiam,

Order affirmed.

Dissenting Opinion by

Montgomery, J.:

I respectfully dissent from the action of the majority in affirming the grant of a new trial in this case as a result of a post-conviction petition.

Discovery of the reputation of the minor subsequent to petitioner’s conviction on the charge of statutory rape does not meet the definition of after-discovered evidence as to justify a new trial. The other reasons stated in the petition are equally without merit.

Wright, P. J., and Watkins, J., join in this dissent.