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COMMONWEALTH v. THOMAS

440 Pa. 213 (1970)

Commonwealth v. Thomas, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

October 9, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanford Shmukler, for appellant.

T. Michael Mather, Assistant District Attorney, 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 EAGEN, October 9, 1970:

This is an appeal from an order entered in the court below dismissing an action seeking post-conviction relief.

The record discloses the following:

On March 29, 1954, Robert Blocker was shot and killed during a street "gang" fight in Philadelphia. The appellant, Hezekiah Thomas,1 was one of several youths taken into police custody in connection with the homicide. He was fourteen...

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