COMMONWEALTH v. COCKFIELD


411 Pa. 71 (1963)

Commonwealth, Appellant, v. Cockfield.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

April 16, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arlen Specter, Assistant District Attorney, with him Louis F. McCabe, Assistant District Attorney, F, Emmett Fitzpatrick, Jr., First Assistant District Attorney, and James C. Crumlish, Jr., District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellant.

Cecil B. Moore, for appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN and O'BRIEN, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BENJAMIN R. JONES, April 16, 1963:

The basic question raised upon this appeal is whether the search of an automobile and the seizure of some of the contents of the trunk of that automobile were incidental to a concededly valid arrest.

In the early morning of April 7, 1960, a dwelling house, located on North Frazier Street, Philadelphia and occupied by a Mrs. Quattlebaum (the deceased) and her two small children, was destroyed by fire...

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