COMMONWEALTH v. McKINNEY


453 Pa. 10 (1973)

Commonwealth v. McKinney, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

July 2, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Dean and John H. Corbett, Jr., Assistant Public Defenders, and George H. Ross, Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert L. Eberhardt and J. Kent Culley, Assistant District Attorneys, and Robert W. Duggan, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY, NIX and MANDERINO, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE EAGEN, July 2, 1973:

On November 16, 1971, the appellant, Charles McKinney, while assisted by self-retained counsel, entered a general plea of guilty to murder in Allegheny County.1 After an extended evidentiary hearing before the Honorable Joseph H. RIDGE, McKinney was adjudged guilty of murder in the first degree. Post trial motions were filed and subsequently argued before...

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