Commonwealth v. Griffin

O’BRIEN, Justice:

Appellant was convicted by a jury of murder of the first degree and criminal conspiracy. Post-verdict motions were denied and appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder conviction; sentence was suspended for the conspiracy conviction. This appeal followed.

This case arose from the death of James Price on December 29, 1974, at Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia. Price was an inmate there, as were appellant and co-defendants Theodore Moody and Theodore Brown. 1

On the date of Price’s death, appellant, Moody and Brown were all inmates of D Block, a maximum security…