COMMONWEALTH v. MITCHELL


445 Pa. 461 (1971)

Commonwealth v. Mitchell, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

December 20, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Alessandroni, Jr., with him Abraham J. Brem Levy, for appellant.

Arlen Specter, District Attorney, with him Louis A. Perez, Jr. and Milton M. Stein, Assistant District Attorneys, James D. Crawford, Deputy District Attorney, and Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

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


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE EAGEN, December 20, 1971:

On May 9, 1968, the appellant, Frank Joseph Mitchell, was convicted by a jury in Philadelphia of murder in the first degree and punishment was fixed at life imprisonment. From the judgment of sentence, this appeal was filed.

The first question presented is whether incriminating oral admissions and a written confession given by Mitchell to the police which were introduced over objection against him at trial were...

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