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COMMONWEALTH v. WARD

442 Pa. 351 (1971)

Commonwealth v. Ward, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 18, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur S. Kafrissen, and Halbert, Kanter, Hirschhorn & Gilson, for appellant.

Martin H. Belsky, 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, March 18, 1971:

On January 9, 1961, the appellant, represented by counsel, entered a plea of guilty to murder generally. Following a degree of guilt hearing at which the District Attorney certified to the court that the crime rose no higher than murder in the second degree, appellant was found guilty of that crime by the trial court. No appeal was taken. In 1969 the appellant filed a petition under the Post Conviction Hearing Act, Act...

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