Supreme Court of Pennsylvania April 18, 1967, Appeal, 367 (Commonwealth Ex Rel. Mount v. Rundle)

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

George Mount entered a plea of guilty to murder generally and, after a hearing, a three-judge court unanimously found him guilty of murder in the first degree

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and, after a hearing under the so-called “Split Verdict Act” (Act of December 1, 1959, P. L. 1621, §1, 18 P.S. §4701), the court unanimously imposed upon Mount the sentence of death.