Commonwealth v. Johnson

Opinion by

Mr. Chiee Justice Bell,

Appellant, Freddie Moses Johnson, was found guilty by a jury of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. A Court en banc denied appellant’s motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment. An appeal from the judgment of sentence was then taken to this Court.

During the mid-afternoon of March 20, 1967, two masked men entered a pawn shop located at 1137 South *36Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, robbed the proprietors of a sum of money and killed Samuel First, one of the co-owners.. Stanley Braxton, an eyewitness to the escape of the two masked…