Commonwealth v. Mount

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

Appellant was indicted for the murder of one Frances Lieberman on August 29, 1963. After he pleaded guilty to murder generally, a three-judge panel was convened under local Philadelphia practice to hear testimony on the degree of guilt. Upon hearing all the evidence, the panel determined that appellant had raped his victim in addition to killing her and fixed the penalty at death in the electric chair. This Court upheld the conviction against appellant’s charge that there was insufficient evidence to prove that a rape had been committed. Commonwealth v. Mount, 416…