Case Name: Commonwealth v. McKnight, Appellant
Court: Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1963-04-18
Citations: 201 Pa. Super. 14
Docket Number: Appeals, Nos. 159 and 160
Parties: Commonwealth v. McKnight, Appellant.
Judges: Before Rhodes, P. J., Ervin, Wright, Woodside, Watkins, Montgomery, and Flood, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports
Volume: 201
Pages: 14–15

Head Matter:
Commonwealth v. McKnight, Appellant.
Argued March 18, 1963.
Before Rhodes, P. J., Ervin, Wright, Woodside, Watkins, Montgomery, and Flood, JJ.
Robert McKnight, appellant, in propria persona, submitted a brief.
Burton Satzberg, Assistant District Attorney, with him Arlen Specter, Assistant District Attorney, F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, Jr., First Assistant District Attorney, and James C. Crumlish, Jr., District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.
April 18, 1963:

Opinion:
Opinion by
Flood, J.,
In Commonwealth v. Meehan, 409 Pa. 616, 187 A. 2d 579 (1963), the Supreme Court granted a new trial to the present appellant's co-defendant Meehan because of the potentiality of harm to him arising from the fact that he and McKnight were represented by the same counsel although there was a serious conflict of interest between them as set forth in the dissenting opinion in Commonwealth v. Meehan, 198 Pa. Superior Ct. 558, at p. 567, 182 A. 2d 212, at p. 217 (1962). For similar reasons a new trial is required for McKnight also.
The judgment is reversed and a new trial is ordered.