COMMONWEALTH v. YOUNGBLOOD


241 Pa.Super. 72 (1976)

359 A.2d 456

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Glenwood YOUNGBLOOD, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided June 28, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Dean, John R. Cook, Pittsburgh, for appellant.

Robert E. Colville, Dist. Atty., Robert L. Eberhardt, Louis R. Paulick, Thomas M. Lilly, Asst. Dist. Attys., Pittsburgh, for appellee.

Before WATKINS, President Judge, and JACOBS, HOFFMAN, CERCONE, PRICE, VAN der VOORT, and SPAETH, JJ.


HOFFMAN, Judge:

Appellant contends that he was arrested without probable cause and that a subsequent on-the-scene identification should have been suppressed as the fruit of the illegal arrest.

At about 6:40 p.m., on January 21, 1975, Officers Tomasko and Hajduk of the Pittsburgh Police Department received a radio call that a purse snatching had just taken place on Second Avenue, near Tripton Street, in the Hazelwood section of Pittsburgh. The only description...

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