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COMMONWEALTH v. BANKS

447 Pa. 356 (1971)

Commonwealth v. Banks, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

December 29, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George B. Stegenga, with him D. Keith Melenyzer, for appellant.

Roger J. Ecker, Assistant District Attorney, with him Jess D. Costa, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

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

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE EAGEN, December 29, 1971:

This concerns the appeal of John Allen Banks who was convicted by a jury of having participated in the burglary-homicide of F.K. Fawcett in July 1969, in Washington, Pennsylvania. Banks was adjudged guilty of murder in the second degree. In a subsequent and separate jury trial, Norvelle DeWitt Jennings, another alleged participant in the Fawcett crimes, was convicted of murder...

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