Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Billa
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 6, 1989PublishedCited by 172 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
LARSEN, Justice.
On June 11,1987, a jury of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County convicted Louis Billa, the appellant, of murder of the first degree, escape and possession of an instrument of crime. The following day, that same jury sentenced appellant to death. Post-verdict motions were denied by the presiding judge who formally sentenced appellant to death on November 18, 1987. This direct appeal followed. We now reverse appellant’s convictions, and remand to the Court of Common Pleas for a new trial.
The evidence presented at trial, viewed in the light most…
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