Commonwealth ex rel. Johnson v. Rundle

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Bell,

Johnson was convicted twice of murder in the first degree. In the first case the jury fixed the penalty at death and in the second case the jury fixed the penalty at life imprisonment. Johnson's first conviction was set aside by this Court because of trial errors: Commonwealth v. Johnson, 368 Pa. 139, 81 A. 2d 569. His second conviction and sentence was sustained by this *499Court in a lengthy unanimous opinion in Commonwealth v. Johnson, 372 Pa. 266, 93 A. 2d 691. After that decision, the Supreme Court of the United States denied certiorari. In our opinion in 372…