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COM. ex rel. PICKWELL v. BURKE

372 Pa. 450 (1953)

Commonwealth ex rel. Pickwell, Appellant, v. Burke.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 5, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell Pickwell, in propria persona, appellant, submitted a brief.

Louis G. Feldman, District Attorney, Stephen A. Teller, First Assistant District Attorney and Joseph Saporito, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee, submitted a brief.

Before STERN, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, BELL, CHIDSEY and MUSMANNO, JJ.

OPINION PER CURIAM, January 5, 1953:

The relator was convicted on February 21, 1929, of murder in the first degree upon his plea of guilty generally to an indictment charging him with a murder committed on September 7, 1928. Upon entry of the plea of guilty, the trial judge took testimony in open court and in the presence of the defendant, who was at all times represented by counsel, in order to determine the degree of the crime. Finding it to be murder in the first...

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