COMMONWEALTH v. PITTMAN


200 Pa.Super. 1 (1962)

Commonwealth, Appellant, v. Pittman.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

December 12, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arlen Specter, Assistant District Attorney, with him Louis F. McCabe, Assistant District Attorney, Paul M. Chalfin, First Assistant District Attorney, and James C. Crumlish, Jr., District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellant.

Robert N.C. Nix, J., for appellee.

Before RHODES, P.J., ERVIN, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, WATKINS, MONTGOMERY, and FLOOD, JJ.


OPINION BY ERVIN, J., December 12, 1962:

On January 30, 1961 Officer Francis Stewart, with two fellow officers, was in a motor car on South Street in the 1500 block. Perceiving a man on the street who had on 10 or 15 occasions given Stewart accurate information concerning possessors of narcotics, Stewart alighted from the car and approached the man. The informant told him that appellee, Irvin Pittman, had narcotics on the premises at 1536 South Street, which was half...

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