COMMONWEALTH v. SIMON


413 Pa. 609 (1964)

Commonwealth v. Simon, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 20, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Malcolm W. Berkowitz, for appellant.

Charles Jay Bogdanoff, Assistant District Attorney, with him Burton Satzberg and Arlen Specter, Assistant District Attorneys, F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, Jr., First Assistant District Attorney, and James C. Crumlish, Jr., District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, March 20, 1964:

Thelma Simon was indicted and tried for murder of her husband, James C. Simon. On March 1, 1962, the jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree and after further deliberation fixed the penalty at life imprisonment. Thereafter, motions for a new trial and arrest of judgment were filed. The lower Court deferred sentencing defendant-appellant until these motions were decided.

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