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COMMONWEALTH v. CANNON

458 Pa. 374 (1974)

Commonwealth v. Cannon, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

October 16, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Corbett, Jr., Assistant Public Defender, with him John J. Dean, Assistant Public Defender, and George H. Ross, Public Defender, for appellant.

J. Kent Culley, Assistant District Attorney, with him Robert L. Eberhardt, Assistant District Attorney, and Robert W. Duggan, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., EAGEN, POMEROY, NIX and MANDERINO, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE NIX, October 16, 1974:

The appellant was tried and convicted in 1953 of murder in the first degree for an incident which occurred in 1949 after his apprehension in Ohio and his return to this jurisdiction through the extradition process. The judgment of sentence was affirmed by this Court in Commonwealth v. Cannon, 386 Pa. 62, 123 A.2d 675 (1956). In 1965 a petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus was filed...

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