Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Evans
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided December 21, 1979No. 356 and 431PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
O’BRIEN, Justice.
Appellant, John Evans, was convicted in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia of murder of the first degree, two counts of robbery and criminal conspiracy. He was sentenced to death for murder and received concurrent prison sentences of ten to twenty years for each count of robbery and one to two years for conspiracy. He appeals the judgment of sentence for murder to this court and has appealed the judgments of sentence on the other counts to the Superior Court, which certified these appeals to this court.
According to the Commonwealth’s evidence,…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Rakas v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Jones v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Brown v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Commonwealth v. JonesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1974
- Commonwealth v. MusiSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1979
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3Cited by40 opinions
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