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COM. v. BRACEY

501 Pa. 356 (1983)

461 A.2d 775

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. Elvita BRACEY, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided June 3, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric B. Henson, Deputy Dist. Atty., Sarah B. Vandenbraak, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellant.

Gilbert J. Scutti, Philadelphia, for appellee.

Before ROBERTS, C.J., and NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, HUTCHINSON and ZAPPALA, JJ.

OPINION

HUTCHINSON, Justice.

A jury convicted appellee of voluntary manslaughter and related charges in connection with the stabbing death of her infant daughter on Easter Sunday, March 26, 1978. The trial court vacated the conviction and granted her a new trial on the ground that her spontaneous statements to police were not voluntary because they were prompted by internal compulsion resulting from her paranoid schizophrenic mental condition. The Commonwealth...

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