COMMONWEALTH v. BROWN


438 Pa. 52 (1970)

Commonwealth v. Brown, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

April 22, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Barclay Surrick, Assistant Public Defender, with him Mervyn R. Turk, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Anna Iwachiw Vadino, Assistant District Attorney, with her Ralph B. D'Iorio, Assistant District Attorney, and Stephen J. McEwen, Jr., District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

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


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE JONES, April 22, 1970:

This is an appeal from a judgment of sentence to life imprisonment imposed by the Court of Common Pleas, Criminal Division, of Delaware County upon Mary Brown (defendant) following her conviction by a jury of first-degree murder, arising from circumstances involving the death of her husband, Tony Brown.

In the early evening of April 11, 1967, the Police Department of Ridley Township received a telephone call from...

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