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COMMONWEALTH v. TOLBERT

450 Pa. 149 (1973)

Commonwealth v. Tolbert, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 19, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christian T. Mattie, III, with him Michael J. Stack, and O'Halloran, Stack & Smith, for appellant.

Maxine Stotland, Assistant District Attorney, with her Martin H. Belsky 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 O'BRIEN, January 19, 1973:

In June of 1953, appellant, James Corey Tolbert, then sixteen years of age, pleaded guilty to murder generally. A three-judge court found him guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment. No appeal was taken.

In 1967, appellant filed a petition under the Post Conviction Hearing Act, alleging, inter alia, that his guilty plea was induced by his involuntary written confession, that he...

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