# Commonwealth v. Perrin

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · March 16, 1979 · 484 Pa. 188

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9644402

## Case

- **Full name:** COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Robert L. PERRIN, Appellant
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** March 16, 1979
- **Citations:** 484 Pa. 188; 398 A.2d 1007; 1979 Pa. LEXIS 521
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Roberts
- **Judges:** Eagen, Roberts, Nix, Manderino, Larsen, O'Brien
- **Cited by:** 25 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that the fact the victim was strangled to death with her legs spread apart and her clothing torn from her body, combined with spermatozoa found inside her vagina, constituted sufficient evidence to support a jury finding that she had been raped

## Opinion text

ROBERTS, Justice,
dissenting.
“A determination under [Commonwealth v. Bighum, 452 Pa. 554 , 307 A.2d 255 (1973)] that an offense does not ‘involve dishonesty or false statement’ requires its absolute exclusion as a basis for impeachment.” Commonwealth v. Roots, 482 Pa. 33 , 38-39 n. 3, 393 A.2d 364 , 366 n. 3 (1978). Even though nothing on this record indicates that appellant’s previous larceny conviction involved dishonesty or false statement, the majority finds nothing improper in the introduction of this prior conviction. I dissent.

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