Court Opinion

ID: 9716128
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 06:27:52.619983+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:42.092147
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*655Dissenting Opinion by
Flood, J.:
There is no evidence here to show the commission of the crime charged within two years of June 26, 1961. The situation here is totally unlike those in the cases cited in the majority opinion where there was doubt about the precise date, but none about the commission of the crime on some date within the statutory period if the Commonwealth’s testimony is believed. Here there was no evidence that the crime was committed after June 22, 1959. We do not see how this can be inferred from the facts that the defendant confessed to thefts from the company’s premises sometime between May 5th and June 22nd, and that he continued to work, although on different shifts, until June 26th.
Nor is this the type of crime to which the extended limitation period provided by the Act of May 16, 1945, P. L. 582, 19 PS §213, is applicable. Commonwealth v. Kauffman, 190 Pa. Superior Ct. 444, 154 A. 2d 269 (1959).
Montgomery, J., joins in this dissent.