Commonwealth v. Myers

OPINION

JONES, Chief Justice.

Appellant, James Myers, was arrested on January 24, 1969 and charged with three others, in the robbery-murder of Charles Ben-Ami. On August 7, 1974, he *205was found guilty by a jury of murder in the first degree, and aggravated robbery. After denial of his post-trial motions, appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment on the murder conviction and to a concurrent ten to twenty year term on the robbery one. These appeals followed.1

The first of appellant’s arguments for our consideration is that he was denied a speedy trial in violation of the United States and…