Commonwealth v. Alexander

OPINION

LARSEN, Justice.

Almost twenty-seven years ago, on June 28, 1954, appellant James Alexander, pleaded guilty to murder generally and to three counts of aggravated assault and assault with intent to kill.1 He was sentenced by the Honorable Joseph *28Sloan, Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, to ten to twenty years for murder of the second degree and to three and one-half to seven years for each aggravated assault count. The sentences were to run consecutively, and totalled twenty and one-half to forty-one years. Appellant did not file a direct appeal from the judgments of sentence.…