Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Brown
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 8, 1976No. 91PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
NIX, Justice.
On May 19, 1969, Robert Carter was shot and killed inside the Opus I Bar at North Twenty-Seventh Street in the City of Philadelphia. Theodore Brown, appellant, *278was arrested and charged with the offense. The first trial commenced on October 14, 1970, and resulted in a mistrial because of the jury’s inability to agree upon a verdict. At the second trial, a verdict of murder of the second degree was returned. This conviction was reversed by order of this Court in an opinion filed March 16, 1973, because of the introduction of a confession that was found to be the…
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