OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE POMEROY, March 16, 1973:
Following an eight day jury trial in 1969, the appellant, Lionel Johnson, was found guilty of the first degree murder of John Boykin. Post-trial motions were denied and a sentence of life imprisonment was imposed.
The Commonwealth's case of felony-murder against appellant was built around the eyewitness testimony of the victim's ten year-old son (seven at the time of the incident), Curtis Boykin, and a voluntary...
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