Court Opinion

ID: 9753202
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 19:03:14.57446+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:27:32.066434
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*364Dissenting Opinion by
Mr. Justice Pomeroy :
I believe the trial court committed prejudicial error in one important respect and that a new trial is required to correct it. I therefore am obliged to dissent.
It is my view that the trial court should have granted the request to instruct the jury on voluntary manslaughter as being a verdict which it was within the jury’s power to return under the murder indictment, with the cautionary admonition, nevertheless, that there was here no evidence of passion or provocation to justify the jury in so doing. The reasons for this view are set forth in Com. v. Matthews, 446 Pa. 65, 285 A. 2d 510 (1971) (dissenting opinion joined by Mr. Justice Roberts), to which reference is hereby made.
Mr. Justice Roberts joins in this dissenting opinion, and in addition dissents for the reasons stated in his dissenting opinion in Commonwealth v. Matthews, 446 Pa. 65, 285 A. 2d 510 (1971).