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COM. v. WATSON

487 Pa. 169 (1979)

409 A.2d 19

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Joseph WATSON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

December 21, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seymore H. Johnson, Jr., Philadelphia, for appellant.

Robert B. Lawler, Asst. Dist. Atty., Chief, Appeals Division, Lee M. Kaplan, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.

Before EAGEN, C.J., and O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, NIX, LARSEN and FLAHERTY, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT

FLAHERTY, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of sentence of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, the defendant having been found guilty of first degree murder, and the judgment of the sentence set at life.

On February 9, 1972 at about 4:00 p.m. two (2) males entered a bar in Philadelphia, within minutes of each other. One of these men, Joseph Clifford Watson, the appellant, came through a side...

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