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- Title: Commonwealth Pennsylvania v. Irvin Gass
- Author : Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- Release Date : January 06, 1987
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
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This appeal arises from an incident which occurred on October 19, 1978, at which time Joseph Marzka was killed in the course of an argument with Appellant. Appellant was found guilty of murder of the first degree following a jury trial. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on July 31, 1979. Post-verdict motions were denied and this Court affirmed the judgment of sentence by per curiam opinion on April 10, 1980. Commonwealth v. Gass, 488 Pa. 512, 412 A.2d 882 (1980). Appellant then filed a Petition for Relief Under the Post Conviction Hearing Act, which, after an evidentiary hearing on August 21, 1981, was denied by the Court of Common Pleas on May 18, 1983. The Superior Court affirmed the denial of post-conviction relief on December 7, 1984. 339 Pa. Super. 615, 488 A.2d 1163. This appeal followed.