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COMMONWEALTH v. WADDY

447 Pa. 262 (1972)

Commonwealth v. Waddy, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

April 20, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter T. Darmopray, with him Dennis E. Haggerty, for appellant.

Judith Dean, Assistant District Attorney, with her 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, C.J., EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY and MANDERINO, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE O'BRIEN, April 20, 1972:

Appellant pleaded guilty to murder generally and was adjudged guilty of murder in the first degree in accordance with the Pennsylvania Felony Murder Statute, Act of June 24, 1939, P.L. 872, § 701; December 1, 1959, P.L. 1621, § 1, 18 P.S. § 4701. Appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment, and the matter is now before this Court on direct appeal from that judgment of sentence.

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