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COMMONWEALTH v. TAPER

434 Pa. 71 (1969)

Commonwealth, Appellant, v. Taper.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

April 23, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony J. Bonadio, Assistant District Attorney, with him Edward B. Doran, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, and Joseph M. Loughran, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellant.

Irving M. Green, for appellee.

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

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, April 23, 1969:

This is an appeal by the Commonwealth from an Order of the lower Court suppressing a confession by the defendant.

Robert Houser was shot and killed in the early morning of March 28, 1965. The police were immediately called to the scene where they spoke with Geraldine Taper, aged 17, who stated that the gun (which was Houser's) went off accidentally as she was handing the gun to him. Houser had been...

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