Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Mangini
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided April 28, 1978No. 86 and 109PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
LARSEN, Justice.
On February 12, 1976, Jason Jones was shot and killed in his room at Warren State Hospital. Appellant, Anthony Mangini, was arrested and charged with the homicide. On June 27, 1976, a jury determined appellant guilty of first-degree murder. Post-trial motions were denied and, on December 27, 1976, a sentence of life-imprisonment was imposed, from which judgment one of the two appeals is taken.
Following the conviction, but prior to sentencing, defense counsel filed a petition for a writ of error coram nobis (to correct errors of fact). That petition alleged that facts…
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