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COMMONWEALTH v. CULPEPER

434 Pa. 15 (1969)

Commonwealth v. Culpeper, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

April 23, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin Dildine, Assistant Defender, and Herman I. Pollock, Defender, for appellant.

Leonard S. Goodman, Martin K. Miller and James D. Crawford, Assistant District Attorneys, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

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

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE O'BRIEN, April 23, 1969:

This is an appeal from the denial, after hearing, by the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Philadelphia County, of appellant's petition for relief under the Post Conviction Hearing Act. On May 3, 1967, appellant, Charles A. Culpeper, pleaded guilty to murder generally before a three judge panel. After a degree of guilt hearing, the court found appellant guilty of second degree murder, one judge being of the view that a conviction...

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