Court Opinion

ID: 9752966
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 18:47:47.261879+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:42:07.974490
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Dissenting Opinion by
Watkins, J.:
I would arrest judgment as to the defendant, Joseph E. Yobbagy, on the ground that the evidence of conspiracy was insufficient to sustain the guilty verdict of the jury. The evidence necessary to prove a criminal conspiracy must rise above mere suspicion or possibility of guilty collusion, and the evidence in this record, upon which this conviction is based, is only mere suspicion and possibility of collusion. Com. v. Burdell, 380 *579Pa. 48, 110 A. 2d 193 (1955). This is another example where the crime of conspiracy is being used as a catchall when the prosecution is unable to prove a specific crime. Com. v. Fabrizio, 197 Pa. Superior Ct. 45, 58, 176 A. 2d 142 (1961).
Montgomery, J., joins in this dissent.