COMMONWEALTH v. WILSON (03/19/70)

Appeal from order of Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, June T., 1960, No. 320, in case of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Jesse W. Wilson.

COUNSEL

Harry L. Green, Jr., Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Richard A. Devlin and Stewart J. Greenleaf, Assistant District Attorneys, Parker H. Wilson, First Assistant District Attorney, and Milton O. Moss, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Wright, P. J., Watkins, Montgomery, Jacobs, Hoffman, Spaulding, and Cercone, JJ. Dissenting Opinion by Hoffman, J. Spaulding, J., joins in this dissenting opinion. Montgomery, J., joins in Part I of this dissenting opinion.

Author: Per Curiam

[ 216 Pa. Super. Page 204]

Order affirmed.

Disposition

Order affirmed.

Dissenting Opinion by Hoffman, J.:

Appellant in the instant case was tried on a charge of arson of his former mother-in-law's home.

In my opinion, a new trial should be granted on three grounds.

I

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