COMMONWEALTH v. JONES


451 Pa. 69 (1973)

Commonwealth v. Jones, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 16, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchell W. Miller, and Levi, Mandel and Miller, for appellant.

Milton M. Stein, 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 JONES, C.J., EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY, NIX and MANDERINO, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, March 16, 1973:

Appellant, James William Jones, Jr., in a Philadelphia jury trial, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. His trial counsel filed post-trial motions, but later in open court, appellant, himself, requested that the post-trial motions be withdrawn. The court then imposed a sentence of six to twelve years imprisonment.

Subsequently appellant instituted a pro se appeal from the judgment of sentence and new counsel...

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