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COMMONWEALTH v. HARRIS

No. 944.

1 Pa. D. & C. 2d 143 (1954)

Commonwealth v. Harris

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

March 8, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel Dash, assistant district attorney, for Commonwealth.

Herbert L. Maris, for defendant.

BROWN, P. J., GUERIN and DAVIS, JJ., March 8, 1954.

This is a proceeding under the Act of April 22, 1903, P. L. 245, 19 PS §§861-63, for a new trial, nunc pro tunc, notwithstanding the expiration of the term in which defendant was convicted of murder of the first degree and sentenced to life imprisonment, based on the ground of after-discovered evidence.

The Act of 1903, provides, in section 1:

"Whenever by petition, supported by after discovered...

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