Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Sherard
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided November 18, 1978No. 2PublishedCited by 114 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court
EAGEN, Chief Justice.
On June 27, 1973, Norvell Lee Sherard was convicted by a jury in the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County of murder of the second degree. Post-verdict motions filed by trial counsel seeking arrest of judgment or a new trial were denied, and judgment of sentence of not less than ten years nor more than twenty years imprisonment was imposed. A direct appeal was taken to this Court, and we affirmed the judgment of sentence. Commonwealth v. Sherard, 456 Pa. 505, 321 A.2d 372 (1974).
Subsequently, Sherard filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the…
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3Cited by114 opinions
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