COMMONWEALTH v. CARTER


219 Pa.Super. 280 (1971)

Commonwealth v. Carter, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

June 22, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis S. Wright, Assistant Defender, with him Jon P. Axelrod, and John W. Packel, Assistant Defenders, and Vincent J. Ziccardi, Defender, for appellant.

J. Bruce McKissock, Assistant District Attorney, with him Milton M. Stein, 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 WRIGHT, P.J., WATKINS, MONTGOMERY, JACOBS, HOFFMAN, SPAULDING, and CERCONE, JJ.


OPINION BY WATKINS, J., June 22, 1971:

This is an appeal from the Judgment of Sentence of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County by the appellant, Melvin Carter; and from the denial of post-trial motions.

This Carter is well known to the criminal courts. He is a chronic and hardened law violator. The decision rests heavily on the able opinion of the court below written by President Judge G. THOMAS GATES of Lebanon County, sitting specially.

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