COMMONWEALTH v. WILLIAMS


236 Pa.Super. 530 (1975)

Commonwealth v. Williams, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

September 22, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas D. Watkins, for appellant.

Suzanne Balen Ercole, Mark Sendrow, and Steven H. Goldblatt, Assistant District Attorneys, Abraham J. Gafni, Deputy District Attorney, and F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

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


OPINION PER CURIAM, September 22, 1975:

The hearing court denied appellant's petition under the Post Conviction Hearing Act, Act of Jan. 25, 1966, P.L. (1965) 1580, 19 P.S. § 1180-1 et seq. (Supp. 1974-75), without either appointing counsel or conducting an evidentiary hearing, or giving petitioner leave to amend. This was error. Commonwealth v. Stull, 439 Pa. 20

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