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COMMONWEALTH v. YOUNG

439 Pa. 498 (1970)

Commonwealth v. Young, Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

September 4, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Bell Hammerman, for appellant.

Richard Max Bockol, Assistant District Attorney, James D. Crawford, Deputy District Attorney, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS and POMEROY, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, September 4, 1970:

This is a collateral attack on petitioner's 1956 conviction, after a plea of guilty, for burglary, larceny and receiving stolen goods. Relief was denied by the hearing court, after an evidentiary hearing with counsel, and the Superior Court affirmed per curiam without opinion. We now grant the allocatur, reverse the order of the Superior Court, vacate the order of the court of common pleas, and remand for a new hearing...

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