COMMONWEALTH v. SPRIGGS


224 Pa.Super. 76 (1973)

Commonwealth v. Spriggs, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

March 27, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael B. Kean, with him Lichtenfeld & Gallagher, for appellant.

Robert S. Gawthrop, III, Assistant District Attorney, with him R. Samuel McMichael, Assistant District Attorney, and William H. Lamb, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before WRIGHT, P.J., WATKINS, JACOBS, HOFFMAN, SPAULDING, CERCONE, and PACKEL, JJ.


OPINION BY HOFFMAN, J., March 27, 1973:

Appellant contends that evidence seized at the time of his arrest was illegally obtained by the police officers, and should have been suppressed.

On the night in question, police officers in West Chester, while on patrol, observed three individuals, one of whom was known to them to be a juvenile, standing next to a car on which hood were some beer cans. As the police approached, the youths drove away in the car. The...

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