COMMONWEALTH v. JOHNSON


402 Pa. 479 (1961)

Commonwealth v. Johnson, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 16, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Leo McSorley, with him John E. Walsh, Jr., for appellant.

Thomas M. Reed, Assistant District Attorney, with him Patrick F. Casey and Arlen Specter, Assistant District Attorneys, Paul M. Chalfin, First Assistant District Attorney, and Victor H. Blanc, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

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


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BOK, January 16, 1961:

This is the case of one of eleven defendants who have been separately tried for the beating to death of a Korean student named In-Ho-Oh in Philadelphia on April 25, 1958. He pleaded not guilty but was convicted of murder in the first degree by a jury, which set the penalty at imprisonment for life.

As we must remand the record for a new trial, we will not narrate the evidence. It should suffice to say that while...

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