Commonwealth v. Collins

Opinion by

Mr. Justice O’Brien,

This is an appeal by Royall Collins from the judgment of sentence of the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Erie County. Appellant, after a trial by jury, was found guilty of second degree murder, and after denial of his post-trial motions, was sentenced to a term of ten to twenty years imprisonment.

The facts are set forth in the opinion of the court below:

“On the evening of April 26, 1967, Norman W. Stan-yard, Jr., age 16, who had run away from home and had only been in Erie for a few days, met three negro youths in the home of Charlie Porter, who at that time lived…