Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Brown

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 7, 1975No. 2PublishedCited by 134 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

POMEROY, Justice.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree for the death by shooting of one William Bogier on December 9, 1969. Post-trial. motions were denied by a court en banc, one judge dissenting and a sentence of life imprisonment, imposed.1 This appeal followed.

*584Appellant has advanced nine assignments of error. Because we have determined that none of the errors alleged requires the granting of a new trial, we will affirm the judgment of sentence.2

The Commonwealth’s evidence established that on the night of December 8, 1969, Brown and another…

2Cases cited23 opinions

  1. United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  3. Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  4. Commonwealth v. ClairSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1974
  5. Commonwealth v. WableSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1955

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3Cited by134 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. HubbardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
  2. Commonwealth v. ZettlemoyerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
  3. Commonwealth v. PaddySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2002
  4. Commonwealth v. TravagliaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
  5. Commonwealth v. BuehlSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1986

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