COM. v. PATTERSON


247 Pa.Super. 527 (1977)

372 A.2d 1214

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Robert Randolph PATTERSON, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided April 19, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sanford S. Finder, Washington, and James Hook and K. O. Tompkins, II, Waynesburg, for appellant.

W. Bertram Waychoff, District Attorney, Waynesburg, for appellee.

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


SPAETH, Judge:

On March 27, 1975, after being found guilty by a jury, appellant was sentenced on counts of arson and criminal trespass. Post-trial motions were filed and denied and the case is before us on direct appeal.

The charges arose out of the burning of two uninhabited farmhouses in Greene County on February 16, 1974. The houses, referred to at trial as the Sabean house and the Esposito house, were separated by only a short distance, and both houses...

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