COMMONWEALTH v. RUZA


238 Pa.Super. 9 (1975)

Commonwealth v. Ruza, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

December 22, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest Kardas, Assistant Public Defender, and Kenneth P. Barrow, Public Defender, for appellant.

Ralph B. D'Iorio, Assistant District Attorney, and Stephen J. McEwen, Jr., District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

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


OPINION BY HOFFMAN, J., December 22, 1975:

Counsel for appellant has alleged that the lower court erred in sentencing his client to a term of imprisonment, rather than ordering him committed to an outpatient mental health program. Subsequently, appellant filed a supplemental brief in which he contended that his attorney failed to raise specific issues that appellant had requested. He claims that because he was committed to a state mental health hospital when he pleaded...

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