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COM. v. GESCHWENDT

500 Pa. 120 (1982)

454 A.2d 991

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. George GESCHWENDT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided December 31, 1982.

Reargument Denied February 4, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart Wilder, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Michael J. Kane, Dist. Atty., Stephen B. Harris, First Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.

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

OPINION

NIX, Justice.

Appellant, George Geschwendt, following a jury trial was convicted of murder in the first degree in the killing of 5 members of the Abt family and a family friend.1 In this appeal he raises a number of objections in support of his request for a new trial. We will focus in this opinion upon the question of whether the holding of this Court in Commonwealth v. Mulgrew, 475 Pa. 271

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