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COMMONWEALTH v. ADKINS

468 Pa. 465 (1976)

364 A.2d 287

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Ernest ADKINS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided October 8, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mead S. Spurio, Philadelphia, for appellant.

F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, Dist. Atty., Steven H. Goldblatt, Asst. Dist. Atty., Chief, Appeals Div., Deborah E. Glass, Asst. Dist. Atty., Carolyn E. Temin, Philadelphia, for appellee.

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

OPINION OF THE COURT

EAGEN, Justice.

On March 13, 1974, Ernest Adkins was convicted by a jury of murder of the first degree1 following the fatal shooting of Gregory Williams. Post-verdict motions were denied and a sentence of life imprisonment was imposed. Adkins appealed from the judgment of sentence asserting three assignments of error.2 Since we have determined...

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