Commonwealth v. Langley
Commonwealth v. Langley
Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Judgment of sentence affirmed.
Dissenting Opinion
(dissenting).
I dissent. The majority approves the ruling of the trial court which withheld from the jury evidence it should have been allowed to consider when determining the state of appellant’s mind at the time of the shooting. Appellant sought to have a psychiatrist express an opinion as to appellant’s state of mind at the time of the shooting. This opinion was based on the psychiatrist’s observations of appellant’s behavior while under an hypnotic trance induced by the psychiatrist. Once the witness was properly qualified to testify as to the experiment done on appellant, the evidence should have been put be
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- COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Bessie Grace LANGLEY, Appellant
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