# Commonwealth v. Brown

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · September 22, 1980 · 491 Pa. 507

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9746637

## Case

- **Full name:** COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, v. Carl L. BROWN, Appellant
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** September 22, 1980
- **Citations:** 491 Pa. 507; 421 A.2d 660; 1980 Pa. LEXIS 794
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Larsen
- **Judges:** Eagen, O'Brien, Roberts, Nix, Larsen, Flaherty, Kauffman
- **Cited by:** 39 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9746637

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- finding, as to the defense of protecting a third party, see 18 Pa.C.S. § 506, that the common law limitation on this defense to near relatives was abandoned under the Crimes Code where the Legislature did not expressly preserve that limitation

## Opinion text

LARSEN, Justice,
concurring.
I join in the majority opinion, but want to note that appellant was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and possessing instruments of a crime.

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