COMMONWEALTH v. JOHNSON


433 Pa. 34 (1969)

Commonwealth v. Johnson, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 15, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Bagdon, for appellant.

Walter W. Cohen, Assistant District Attorney, with him James D. Crawford, Assistant District Attorney, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

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


OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, January 15, 1969:

Appellant, Freddie Moses Johnson, was found guilty by a jury of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. A Court en banc denied appellant's motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment. An appeal from the judgment of sentence was then taken to this Court.

During the mid-afternoon of March 20, 1967, two masked men entered a pawn shop located at 1137 South

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