COMMONWEALTH v. WILSON


452 Pa. 376 (1973)

Commonwealth v. Wilson, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 23, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chas Lowenthal, for appellant.

Robert B. Lawler, James T. Ranney and Milton M. Stein, Assistant District Attorneys, 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 JONES, May 23, 1973:

The appellant, Marion Wilson, was convicted of first degree murder by a jury and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1967. In a prior direct appeal to this Court the appellant raised eleven separate contentions favoring reversal of his conviction. We affirmed the judgment of sentence.1 Subsequently, the appellant filed a Post Conviction Hearing Act petition and a counseled evidentiary hearing was...

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