Commonwealth v. Sullivan

*139OPINION

NIX, Justice.

On the evening of June 17, 1966, John Gorey, an officer of Teamsters Union Local 107, and his friend, Rita Janda, were fatally shot at the local union’s Philadelphia office building. In November of that year, on the basis of evidence presented at a Medical Examiner’s inquest, John Sullivan, also an officer of the local, was charged with both murders.1

Sullivan’s jury trial began on June 7, 1967. On June 19, 1967, the jury found him guilty of two counts of murder in the first degree. The following day, the jury determined that Sullivan should be sentenced to serve two…