# Commonwealth v. Jones

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · December 29, 2006 · 590 Pa. 202

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9756572

## Case

- **Full name:** COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee v. Damon JONES, Appellant; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Cross-Appellant v. Damon Jones, Cross-Appellee
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** December 29, 2006
- **Citations:** 590 Pa. 202; 912 A.2d 268; 2006 Pa. LEXIS 2565
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Cappy
- **Judges:** Cappy, Castille, Newman, Saylor, Eakin, Baer, Baldwin
- **Cited by:** 236 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that, when properly read in a common sense manner, first-degree murder indictment gave defendant adequate notice of the charges against him, although the criminal information did not specify the specific intent elements as to the unintended victim of shooting
- holding that counsel cannot be found ineffective for failing to challenge legally proper jury instructions
- explaining that this Court has upheld criminal indictments possessing a flaw and found them to be constitutional because they put the defendant on sufficient notice of the charge against him or her
- affirming the PCRA court’s grant of a new penalty phase where trial counsel failed to investigate and uncover a substantial amount of mitigation evidence, including juvenile court, school, and incarceration records that detailed a history of mood swings, auditory and visual ha…

## Opinion text

Chief Justice CAPPY
concurring.
I join the majority opinion except for the first two points raised by Justice Saylor’s concurring opinion regarding this court’s decision in Commonwealth v. Collins, 585 Pa. 45 , 888 A.2d 564 (2005) and the discussion regarding transferred intent as set forth in Commonwealth v. Huffman, 536 Pa. 196 , 638 A.2d 961 (1994).

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