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COMMONWEALTH v. ABNER

460 Pa. 321 (1975)

333 A.2d 747

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Cleveland ABNER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided March 18, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis M. Natali, Jr., Segal, Appel & Natali, Philadelphia, for appellant.

F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, Jr., Dist. Atty., Richard A. Sprague, First Asst. Dist. Atty., Steven H. Goldblatt, Asst. Dist. Atty., Chief, Appeals Div., James Garrett, Asst. Dist. Atty., Abraham J. Gafni, Deputy Dist. Atty. for Law, Philadelphia, for appellee.

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

OPINION OF THE COURT

O'BRIEN, Justice.

Appellant, Cleveland Abner, was tried by a judge and jury and found guilty of murder in the first degree and aggravated robbery. Post-trial motions were denied, and appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment for the first-degree murder conviction and a concurrent sentence of ten to twenty years for the aggravated robbery conviction. This appeal followed.

Appellant's conviction arose out of the robbery-murder...

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