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COMMONWEALTH v. AMOS

445 Pa. 297 (1971)

Commonwealth v. Amos, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

December 20, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John David Egnal, 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 JONES, EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY and BARBIERI, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BARBIERI, December 20, 1971:

This is an appeal from a judgment of sentence of ten to twenty years entered by the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County upon a verdict of second degree murder following denial by the Court en banc of defendant's motion for a new trial.

There is no dispute that appellant shot and killed the decedent. The only question to be decided at trial was whether...

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