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COMMONWEALTH v. SAUNDERS

386 Pa. 149 (1956)

Commonwealth v. Saunders, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

September 24, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman Landy, with him Norman Paul Wolken and Wolken & Landy, for appellant.

William Claney Smith, Assistant District Attorney, with him Edward C. Boyle, District Attorney and George H. Ross, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.

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

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HORACE STERN, September 24, 1956:

Shortly after seven o'clock on the morning of June 2, 1954, John T. Neelans, a 62 year old attendant at a gasoline station located at Reedsdale Street and Ridge Avenue in the City of Pittsburgh, was struck on the head, shot in the chest, and robbed, by someone who stepped out from the side of the station; he died a few minutes later. The crime thus committed was murder in the first degree, the only question...

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