Legal Opinion
Commonwealth Ex Rel. Mount v. Rundle
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided April 18, 1967No. Appeal, 367PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Jones,
George Mount entered a plea of guilty to murder generally and, after a hearing, a three-judge court unanimously found him guilty of murder in the first degree 1 and, after a hearing under the so-called “Split Verdict Act” (Act of December 1, 1959, P. L. 1621, §1, 18 P.S. §4701), the court unanimously imposed upon Mount the sentence of death. On direct appeal to this Court, we affirmed the judgment of sentence: Commonwealth v. Mount, 416 Pa. 343, 205 A. 2d 924 (1965), cert. den., 381 U.S. 954, 85 S. Ct. 1815 (1965).
Six months later, Mount petitioned Court of Common…
2Cases cited34 opinions
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- Escobedo v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Massiah v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Johnson v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1966
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Commonwealth ex rel. Johnson v. RundleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1970
- Commonwealth v. MotleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
- Commonwealth v. MountSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1969
- People v. BryanCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1970
- Commonwealth v. MountSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1971
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