Commonwealth v. Kennedy

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Eagen,

The appellant, Howard Kennedy, was convicted by a jury of murder in the second degree, aggravated robbery, burglary and conspiracy. All of the crimes were based on and were allegedly committed in the perpetration of a robbery of a drug store in Philadelphia during which the druggist was fatally shot. After post-trial motions were denied, separate prison sentences of 10 to 20 years, to run consecutively, were imposed on the murder, robbery and burglary convictions: Sen-

tence was suspended on the conspiracy conviction. A timely appeal from the judgment of sentence…