COMMONWEALTH v. WILLIAMS


221 Pa.Super. 352 (1972)

Commonwealth v. Williams, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

June 15, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee Mandell, and Charleston & Fenerty, for appellant.

Melvin Dildine and Milton M. Stein, Assistant District Attorneys, 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, JACOBS, HOFFMAN, SPAULDING, CERCONE, and PACKEL, JJ.


OPINION BY CERCONE, J., June 15, 1972:

This is an appeal from the lower court's refusal to grant appellant's motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment after conviction and sentence on seventeen separate indictments covering the offenses of riot by prisoner, riotous destruction of property, assault and battery, and aggravated assault and battery, all of which indictments arose out of defendant's participation in a riot which occurred in Holmesburg Prison on July...

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