Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Miller
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided July 3, 1980No. 24PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
EAGEN, Chief Justice.
Appellant, Clarence Miller, was convicted of murder of the first degree after a jury trial in Allegheny County and sentenced to a term of life imprisonment. This is a direct appeal from the judgment of sentence.
Reading the record in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, it discloses the following:
The victim, George Wilhelm, first met Miller in 1974. Miller and two associates, Orlosky and Goldblum, developed an elaborate scheme to defraud Wilhelm under the pretense of acquiring government land for him. In all, Wilhelm was defrauded of over…
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