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COMMONWEALTH v. ASHBURN

459 Pa. 625 (1975)

331 A.2d 167

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. James Jarrett ASHBURN a/k/a James Jarrett Ashburn, Jr., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided January 27, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mead S. Spurio, Philadelphia, for appellant.

F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, Dist. Atty., David Richman, Asst. Dist. Atty., Chief, Appeals Div., Philadelphia, for appellee.

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

OPINION OF THE COURT

POMEROY, Justice.

A Philadelphia County jury found James Jarrett Ashburn guilty of murder in the second degree. Post-verdict motions were denied, and Ashburn was sentenced to life imprisonment under the habitual offender statute.1 This appeal followed.

Acting on information supplied by a person who shared a hotel room with Ashburn, police investigators went to the hotel room, where they discovered...

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