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COMMONWEALTH v. WITHERSPOON

442 Pa. 597 (1971)

Commonwealth v. Witherspoon, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 1, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel M. Rendine, with him Herbert A. Barton, for appellant.

Benjamin H. Levintow, Assistant District Attorney, with him Milton M. Stein, 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 POMEROY, June 1, 1971:

Before the Court are three appeals from judgments of sentence entered against Lawrence Witherspoon, appellant, by the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County. After a jury trial appellant was found guilty of murder in the first degree, burglary and robbery and was sentenced to life imprisonment and two consecutive ten-to-twenty year terms.

The record discloses the following facts. On the evening of November...

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