COMMONWEALTH v. PITTS


450 Pa. 359 (1973)

Commonwealth v. Pitts, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 16, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Lipschitz and Perry S. Bechtle, for appellant.

Benjamin H. Levintow and Milton M. Stein, Assistant District Attorneys, 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 and MANDERINO, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE O'BRIEN, March 16, 1973:

This is an appeal from a judgment of sentence of life imprisonment imposed by the court after appellant was found guilty by a jury of the first-degree murder of Harriet Washington and appellant's post-trial motions were denied.

Appellant first contends that the Commonwealth's evidence was insufficient to establish his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. As we have said on many occasions: ". . . the test to be applied...

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