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COMMONWEALTH v. LOFTON

448 Pa. 184 (1972)

Commonwealth v. Lofton, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 28, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gilbert E. Toll, for appellant.

Carolyn E. Temin and Milton M. Stein, Assistant District Attorneys, James D. Crawford, Deputy District Attorney, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY, NIX and MANDERINO, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, June 28, 1972:

In 1947 appellant Clarence Lofton entered a plea of guilty to murder generally. After a hearing in the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, appellant was found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to life imprisonment.

In 1967 appellant filed a petition seeking relief under the Post Conviction Hearing Act,1 and after a hearing at...

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