Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Boyd
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 18, 1975No. 10PublishedCited by 127 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ROBERTS, Justice.
In this appeal, appellant Kenneth Boyd presents a multifaceted attack upon the validity of his conviction of murder in the second degree. Boyd was tried before the court sitting without a jury on February 28, 1974. Post-verdict motions were filed but were later withdrawn. Appellant was sentenced to five to 20 years imprisonment. Subsequently, Boyd obtained new counsel and an appeal was mistakenly filed in the Superior Court and then properly in this Court. We remanded to the trial court for the filing of post-trial motions. Post-trial motions were filed…
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