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COM. ex rel. RIVERS v. MYERS

414 Pa. 439 (1964)

Commonwealth ex rel. Rivers, Appellant, v. Myers.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 11, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julian B.P. Brereton, Assistant Defender, with him Herman I. Pollock, Defender, for appellant.

Charles Jay Bogdanoff, Assistant District Attorney, with him Louis F. McCabe and Arlen Specter, Assistant District Attorneys, F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, Jr., First Assistant District Attorney, and James C. Crumlish, Jr., District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

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

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE O'BRIEN, May 11, 1964:

On April 17, 1957, the petitioner pleaded guilty to a charge of murder and was found guilty of murder in the first degree by a three judge court en banc. The court sentenced the appellant, along with co-defendants Robert Lee Williams and James Cater, to death in the electric chair. Appeals were taken to this court and we concluded that the determination of first degree murder was...

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