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COMMONWEALTH v. WRIGHT

460 Pa. 247 (1975)

332 A.2d 809

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Benjamin WRIGHT, Appellant (two cases).

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided January 27, 1975.

Rehearing Denied March 10, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley Bashman, Philadelphia, for appellant.

John H. Isom, Asst. Dist. Atty., Abraham J. Gafni, Deputy Dist. Atty. for Law, F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, Dist. Atty., Richard A. Sprague, First Asst. Dist. Atty., Steven H. Goldblatt, 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.

Benjamin Wright was found guilty by a jury of aggravated robbery and murder in the first degree. Post-verdict motions were denied, and Wright was sentenced to life imprisonment on the murder conviction, and a concurrent term of imprisonment of ten to twenty years on the robbery conviction. This appeal followed.1 We affirm.

The victim, one Karl Klaiss, was fatally shot on a Philadelphia...

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