COMMONWEALTH v. COSBY


234 Pa.Super. 1 (1975)

Commonwealth, Appellant, v. Cosby.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

March 31, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Richman, William Turnoff, Mark Sendrow, and Steven H. Goldblatt, Assistant District Attorneys, Abraham J. Gafni, Deputy District Attorney, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellant.

Hardy Williams, for appellee.

Before WATKINS, P.J., JACOBS, HOFFMAN, CERCONE, PRICE, VAN DER VOORT, and SPAETH, JJ.


OPINION BY SPAETH, J., March 31, 1975:

This is an appeal by the Commonwealth from an order suppressing evidence as obtained by an illegal search and seizure.1

In May of 1972, John Knox, a student at Temple University, sublet his apartment near the Temple campus to appellee. Appellee never paid the rent, and on July 14, 1972, at about 4:00 p.m., Knox went to the apartment to collect the rent. Finding that the lock had been changed...

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