Commonwealth v. Revty

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided 1972-10-04

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Opinion by Mb. Justice Nix, On January 4, 1956, appellant Peter Revty stabbed Winston Hollis to death in the dining room of the Western Penitentiary where both men were inmates. Four days earlier, Hollis had beaten the appellant badly during an altercation in the Penitentiary auditorium, after which the appellant spent three days fashioning a knife out of a so…

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