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COMMONWEALTH v. ROUNDTREE

440 Pa. 199 (1970)

Commonwealth v. Roundtree, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

October 9, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. Leonard Hoffman, for appellant.

Arthur R. Makadon, Assistant District Attorney, James D. Crawford, Deputy 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, ROBERTS and POMEROY, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE EAGEN, October 9, 1970:

In this appeal, the appellant, Weldon Roundtree, challenges the validity of the judgment and conviction resulting from his general plea of guilty on May 15, 1963,1 to the charge of murder.

It is urged that the plea was invalid "as not being voluntarily and intelligently made."

While Roundtree speaks in terms of the plea being "involuntary", what is really meant, as our subsequent...

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