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COMMONWEALTH v. JONES

459 Pa. 62 (1974)

327 A.2d 10

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Marshall JONES, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided October 16, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel Kagle, Philadelphia, for appellant.

Arlen Specter, Dist. Atty., Richard A. Sprague, 1st Asst. Dist. Atty., Milton M. Stein, Asst. Dist. Atty., Chief, Appeals Div., Albert L. Becker, Asst. Dist. Atty., Philadelphia, for appellee.

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

OPINION

POMEROY, Justice.

This is a direct appeal from the judgment of sentence of life imprisonment imposed upon the appellant following his conviction of first degree murder.1

The evidence can be summarized briefly: In the early morning hours of December 14, 1969, Marshall Jones and three other persons agreed to "make some hits" in downtown Philadelphia. They proceeded to the...

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