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COMMONWEALTH v. MAYBEE

429 Pa. 222 (1968)

Commonwealth v. Maybee, Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 15, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel T. Zamos and Anthony C. Troiano, Assistant Defenders, and George H. Ross, Defender, for petitioners.

Edwin J. Martin and Charles B. Watkins, Assistant District Attorneys, and Robert W. Duggan, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, respondent.

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

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, March 15, 1968:

It has long been fundamental to the criminal jurisprudence of this Commonwealth that a necessary predicate to any conviction is proof of the corpus delicti, i.e., the occurrence of an injury or loss and someone's criminality as the source of this injury or loss. See Commonwealth v. Burns, 409 Pa. 619, 627, 187 A.2d 552, 556-57 (1963); Commonwealth v. Turza, 340 Pa. 128, 133...

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