Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Grace
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided July 8, 1977No. 12 and 21PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
EAGEN, Chief Justice.
Ronald Grace was convicted by a jury of murder of the second degree and robbery. Concurrent judgments of sentence of life imprisonment and not less than ten *546nor more than twenty years imprisonment were imposed. These appeals followed.1
A timely written “motion in arrest of judgment or for a new trial” was filed in the trial court, but only “boiler-plate” challenges to the validity of the convictions were advanced in this motion. It did include a request for permission to file “additional reasons in support of this motion” after the transcription of the notes of…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Commonwealth v. ClairSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1974
- Commonwealth v. BlairSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1975
- Commonwealth v. BrownSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1975
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3Cited by71 opinions
- Commonwealth v. GravelySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1979
- Commonwealth v. MusiSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1979
- Commonwealth v. HolmesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
- Commonwealth v. SlaughterSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1978
- Commonwealth v. BrownSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1980
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