Commonwealth v. Crawford

OPINION OF THE COURT

MANDERINO, Justice.

On September 18, 1974, a jury found appellant, Steven Crawford, guilty of murder in the first degree for the September 12, 1970 killing of John Eddie Mitchell. Post-verdict motions were denied and this appeal followed.

On September 13, 1970, John Eddie Mitchell, then age 13, was found beaten to death in a garage owned by appellant’s father. The victim had left his home at about noon on the previous day to turn in money he had collected from his paper route, and had not returned. At that time he was with appellant, then age 14. The next day a neighbor…