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COMMONWALTH v. CATER

402 Pa. 48 (1960)

Commonwealth v. Cater, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 15, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Bradley Ward, with him Joseph L. Ehrenreich, for appellant.

Garfield W. Levy, with him Irwin Apfel, for appellant.

Arlen Specter, Assistant District Attorney, with him Domenick Vitullo, Assistant District Attorney, Paul M. Chalfin, First Assistant District Attorney, and Victor H. Blanc, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, BOK and EAGEN, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. BENJAMIN R. JONES, November 15, 1960:

For the second time we have before us for determination the propriety of the imposition of death sentences upon Cater and Rivers, the present appellants, after their conviction of murder in the first degree by a three-judge court in Philadelphia County.

The pertinent facts surrounding this homicide and the trial were stated by Mr. Justice COHEN in Commonwealth v. Cater et al., 396 Pa...

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