Commonwealth v. Hayes

CIRILLO, Judge:

Appellant, Lester M. X. Hayes, shot and killed Elliot Glover in a Philadelphia bar on August 22, 1969. In exchange for the District Attorney’s certification that the case rose no higher than second degree murder, appellant plead guilty to murder generally on October 29, 1970. The trial judge found appellant guilty of second degree murder, and ordered the maximum sentence of ten to twenty years imprisonment, to run consecutively to a fifteen year federal sentence already being served by appellant.

*382On November 16, 1970, before sentencing, appellant filed pro se motions for the…