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COMMONWEALTH v. JONES

450 Pa. 442 (1973)

Commonwealth v. Jones, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 19, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julian F. King, for appellant.

Maxine J. Stotland, 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 EAGEN, January 19, 1973:

The appellant, George Washington Jones, was indicted in separate bills for murder, voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter and arson. The charges grew out of a fire which took the life of a five-week-old infant, Sean McKinnon, and destroyed the interior of a dwelling house at 2010 Federal Street in Philadelphia.

When the issue was called for trial, Jones was first arraigned on the murder and arson indictments...

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