COMMONWEALTH v. CLANTON


395 Pa. 521 (1959)

Commonwealth v. Clanton, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 8, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward E. Petrillo, for appellant.

Herbert J. Johnson, Jr., District Attorney, with him Richard V. Scarpitti, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, BOK and McBRIDE, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BELL, May 8, 1959:

Defendant was indicted and tried for murder. The jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree and fixed the penalty at life imprisonment. After defendant's motion for a new trial was dismissed, he appealed to this Court.

The jury could have found from the Commonwealth's evidence and from the reasonable and legitimate inferences therefrom that the Commonwealth proved beyond a reasonable doubt the following facts...

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