COMMONWEALTH v. McCUTCHEN


463 Pa. 90 (1975)

343 A.2d 669

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Freddy McCUTCHEN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided July 7, 1975.

Rehearing Denied September 16, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph R. Danella, Philadelphia, for appellant.

F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, Dist. Atty., Steven H. Goldblatt, Asst. Dist. Atty., Chief, Appeals Div., James Garrett, Philadelphia, for appellee.

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


OPINION OF THE COURT

O'BRIEN, Justice.

Appellant, Freddy McCutchen, was tried by a judge and jury and found guilty of murder in the first degree and sodomy. Post-trial motions were denied and appellant was given a life sentence, with a ten-to-twenty-year sentence on the sodomy charge to run consecutively with his life sentence. This appeal followed.

Appellant, age fifteen at the time of his arrest, argues that his confession should have been...

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