Commonwealth v. Brown

OPINION OF THE COURT

EAGEN, Justice.

Appellant, Albert Brown, was found guilty by a jury in Philadelphia on August 19,1974 of murder of the first degree and criminal conspiracy. Post verdict motions were filed and denied. Appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment on the murder conviction and to five to ten years imprisonment on the conspiracy conviction; sentences to run concurrently. These appeals followed. 1

On November 11, 1973, Domingo Martinez was attacked and stabbed to death outside a tavern in Philadelphia. Although the Commonwealth conceded at trial that Brown did not do the actual…