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COMMONWEALTH v. JOHNSON

372 Pa. 266 (1953)

Commonwealth v. Johnson, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 5, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Lester Haws, with him Robert W. Honeyman, for appellant.

Bernard E. DiJoseph, Assistant District Attorney, with him J. Stroud Weber, District Attorney, for appellee.

Before STERN, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, BELL, CHIDSEY and MUSMANNO, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE CHIDSEY, January 5, 1953:

Upon each of two indictments James Morris Johnson was convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree with penalty fixed at life imprisonment. His motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment were dismissed and this appeal is from the judgment and sentence impos ed in accordance with the verdict.

This was defendant's second trial. At his first trial he was convicted of murder in the first degree with penalty...

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