COMMONWEALTH v. MARTIN


440 Pa. 150 (1970)

Commonwealth v. Martin, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

October 9, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Faust Mattioni, for appellant.

Arthur R. Makadon, Assistant District Attorney, with him James D. Crawford, Deputy District Attorney, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

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


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, October 9, 1970:

On September 16, 1968, appellant was convicted by a jury of second degree murder. Post-trial motions were filed and denied, and appellant was sentenced to serve a term of five to twenty years. This appeal followed and we affirm.

The evidence produced at trial indicates that on the morning of January 20, 1968, appellant entered a tavern in Philadelphia where decedent...

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