Case ID: pa-super_221/html/0480-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hoffman, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Commonwealth v. Williams, Appellant.
    Argued March 13, 1972.
    Before Wright, P. J., Watkins, Jacobs, Hoffman, Spaulding, Cercone, and Packel, JJ.
    
      Arthur K. Dils, for appellant.
    
      Marion E. MacIntyre, Deputy District Attorney, with him LeRoy S. Zimmerman, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.
    
      June 16, 1972:
   Opinion by

Hoffman, J.,

This appellant was the co-defendant of Thomas Frederick Culpepper, whose appeal was decided this even date. The appeals of the two defendants are identical, and for the reasons stated in Commonwealth v. Culpepper, 221 Pa. Superior Ct. 472, 293 A. 2d 122 (1972), we believe that appellant was placed twice in jeopardy for the same crime.

Therefore, the judgment of sentence is vacated, and appellant is discharged.

Wright, P. J., would affirm on the opinion of President Judge Kreider.

Watkins and Jacobs, JJ., dissent.