COMMONWEALTH v. JOHNSON


451 Pa. 528 (1973)

Commonwealth v. Johnson, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 4, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon H. Kline, for appellant.

Bonnie Brigance Leadbetter, Assistant District Attorney, with her 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 MANDERINO, May 4, 1973:

Appellant, Robert Johnson, on February 6, 1946, pleaded guilty to murder generally, was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to death. The sentence was later commuted to one of life imprisonment. No appeal was taken.

In 1965, Johnson filed a habeas corpus petition in which he claimed that his confession should not have been admitted at his degree of guilt hearing because it was given at a critical...

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