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COMMONWEALTH v. WILSON

430 Pa. 1 (1968)

Commonwealth v. Wilson, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 3, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Papuga, with him Patterson, Crawford, Arensberg & Dunn, for appellant.

Charles B. Watkins, Assistant District Attorney, and Robert W. Duggan, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

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

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, May 3, 1968:

Appellant was convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree and was sentenced in June of 1958 to serve a life sentence. In a May, 1966 Post Conviction Hearing Act petition he requested, inter alia, the right to file new trial motions nunc pro tunc and, if these were denied, the right to appeal from that denial. A hearing was held in the court below, limited by the judge to an examination of whether appellant Wilson...

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