Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Williams
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided April 21, 1994No. 3 Capital Appeal DocketPublishedCited by 185 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
FLAHERTY, Justice.
Following a jury trial in the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County, appellant, Kenneth John Williams, Sr., was found guilty of murder of the first degree, 1 robbery, 2 theft by unlawful taking or disposition, 3 and receiving stolen property. 4 A sentencing hearing took place after which the jury recommended that appellant be sentenced to death, finding, as an aggravating circumstance which outweighed any mitigating circumstances, that murder was committed in the act of the commission of a felony, i.e. robbery. On June 29, 1990, the Court of Common Pleas…
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