COM. v. FREY


512 Pa. 557 (1986)

517 A.2d 1265

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Roderick Herman FREY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided November 18, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Penn Bradford Glazier, Lancaster, for appellant.

Henry S. Kenderdine, Jr., Dist. Atty., John A. Kenneff, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, HUTCHINSON, ZAPPALA and PAPADAKOS, JJ.


OPINION

NIX, Chief Justice.

On post-conviction review we are here faced with the question whether appellant, Robert Frey, convicted of first degree murder by a jury and sentenced to death, which sentence was affirmed by this Court on direct appeal, is entitled to a new trial on the basis of after-discovered evidence.

On November 8, 1979, the body of Barbara Jean Frey, the estranged wife of appellant, was discovered in her automobile in a cornfield...

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