Commonwealth v. Magee

Opinion by

Mr. Justice O’Brien,

This is an appeal from a first-degree murder conviction and a judgment of sentence of life imprisonment entered after a jury trial on February 19, 1954. After a series of proceedings which need not concern us,1 appellant was allowed to file motions for a new trial and/or an arrest of judgment, as if they had been timely filed subsequent to his 1954 conviction. After these motions were denied by a court en banc, this appeal was filed.

Appellant’s principal argument concerns what he alleges was the improper admission of an inculpatory statement made by him to the…