Court Opinion

ID: 9713729
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 05:21:14.500952+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:20.110140
License: Public Domain

JONES, Chief Justice
(dissenting).
I dissent. It is my belief our holding in Commonwealth v. Rose, 457 Pa. 380, 321 A.2d 880, 885 (1974), *27should not apply to the affirmative defense of insanity. (See my concurring opinion in Rose 457 Pa. at 393, 321 A.2d at 886, and Commonwealth v. Winebrenner, 439 Pa. 73, 265 A.2d 108 (1970).) Even if the new evidentiary rule expressed therein is extended, it should not be given retroactive effect.