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COMMONWEALTH v. JAMES

433 Pa. 508 (1969)

Commonwealth v. James, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

April 23, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Benjamin Johnson, Jr., for appellant.

Edward G. Rendell, Assistant District Attorney, with him James D. Crawford, Assistant District Attorney, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

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

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, April 23, 1969:

Appellant and decedent emerged from a bar and engaged in an altercation during which the deceased was fatally stabbed by appellant. Appellant claimed self-defense. The jury found her not guilty of murder but guilty of voluntary manslaughter and appellant took this appeal.

Appellant contended at trial that she stabbed the deceased only after he had beaten her. In attempting...

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