Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Pounds
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided July 3, 1980No. 129PublishedCited by 137 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
EAGEN, Chief Justice.
On July 9, 1976, a jury found Gary Pounds guilty of murder of the first degree, possession of an unlicensed firearm, crime with a firearm, two counts of theft, and one count of receiving stolen property. Post-verdict motions were denied on June 9, 1978, and, on June 27, 1978, Pounds was sentenced to life imprisonment on the murder conviction. Sentence was suspended on the other offenses. This appeal is from the judgment imposed on the murder conviction.
The trial record discloses the following:
At 1:28 a. m. on July 24, 1975, the body of Joe McGuane,…
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