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COMMONWEALTH v. STOKES

409 Pa. 268 (1962)

Commonwealth v. Stokes, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 26, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Harper, with him Utterback & Brown, for appellant.

William Claney Smith, Assistant District Attorney, with him Harry Savage, Assistant District Attorney, and Edward C. Boyle, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, O'BRIEN and KEIM, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, November 26, 1962:

Appellant was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

On December 10, 1959, at around 7:00 p.m., two police officers of the Borough of Braddock, Krehely and Reaves, while patrolling in the vicinity of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks on Braddock Avenue, received a call to proceed to 226 Halket Avenue — 100 yards from the B. & O. Railroad tracks. They testified...

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