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COMMONWEALTH v. FARRIS

443 Pa. 251 (1971)

Commonwealth v. Farris, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 28, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marilyn J. Gelb, with her Edmund E. De Paul, for appellant.

Peter S. Greenberg, Assistant District Attorney, with him Milton M. Stein, Assistant District Attorney, James D. Crawford, Deputy District Attorney, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

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

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE EAGEN, June 28, 1971:

Emanuel Farris, fourteen years of age, after the filing of a delinquency petition and a counseled evidentiary hearing before a judge sitting in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, Family Court Division, was held for further proceedings before a grand jury. At the hearing evidence was introduced that Farris fatally stabbed another youth in the back without provocation during a street gang fight. He was subsequently...

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