Commonwealth v. Shadron

OPINION OF THE COURT

POMEROY, Justice:

Appellant Robert Scott Shadron was convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree for the death by stabbing of one Paul Clark Bennett. Post-trial motions were denied and Shadron was sentenced to life imprisonment. On this appeal, he urges reversal of his conviction on the *463grounds that certain evidence should have been suppressed and that a new trial should have been awarded because of failure of the court to charge on the felony involved in a felony-murder.1 Finding the latter claim to be meritorious, we will reverse.

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Appellant’s first assignment of…