COMMONWEALTH v. WILLIAMS


458 Pa. 319 (1974)

Commonwealth v. Williams, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

October 16, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles O. Barto, Jr., Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Wallace B. Eldridge, III, Assistant District Attorney, with him Marion E. MacIntyre, Deputy District Attorney, and LeRoy S. Zimmerman, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

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


OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JONES, October 16, 1974:

Appellant, Bruce Allen Williams, was tried before a jury in the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County and convicted of murder in the first degree. Timely motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment were denied, and appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment. This appeal followed.

On February 16, 1972, Josephine Catherine Glace, a fifty-nine year old housewife, left her church in Harrisburg at approximately...

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