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COMMONWEALTH v. WRIGHT

444 Pa. 588 (1971)

Commonwealth v. Wright, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

October 12, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis R. Suplee, with him Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, for appellant.

Milton M. Stein, Assistant District Attorney, with him Richard Max Bockol, 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 EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY and BARBIERI, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE EAGEN, October 12, 1971:

The appellant, Walter Lee Wright, was convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree, and the punishment was fixed at life imprisonment. After sentence was imposed by the court, as the jury directed, an appeal was filed in this Court. We subsequently reversed the judgment and awarded a new trial because of certain trial errors. See 415 Pa. 55

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