Commonwealth v. Speroff

Opinion by

Dithrich, J.,

On May 8, 1950, Daniel Spiroff, James Collins, and Malcolm Epstein, appellants, were tried and convicted of the crime of armed robbery. On May 5, 1950, Epstein had been sentenced on previous convictions for robbery, by three judges of the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Allegheny County, sitting en banc, to three consecutive terms of imprisonment in the Western State Penitentiary of from ten to twenty years and to one ten to twenty-year concurrent term.

Because of certain comments concerning Epstein made by the sentencing judges in the presence of the panel of petit…