COM. v. HOLMES


480 Pa. 536 (1978)

391 A.2d 1015

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Edward Lewis HOLMES, Jr., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided October 5, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry P. Gaitens, Lucchino, Gaitens & Hough, Pittsburgh, for appellant.

Robert E. Colville, Dist. Atty., Robert L. Eberhardt, Asst. Dist. Atty., Charles W. Johns, Pittsburgh, for appellee.

Before O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY, NIX, MANDERINO and LARSEN, JJ.


OPINION

NIX, Justice.

On April 19, 1975, at approximately 11:00 p.m. Howard Wilcox, Richard A. Mitchell and Kenneth Latimer drove to Haverhill Street near Singer Place in the Borough of Wilkinsburg for the purpose of purchasing cocaine. Mitchell and Wilcox had made arrangements through an intermediary, Thomas Banks, to purchase the drugs from a seller who was later identified as being Edward Lewis Holmes, Jr., appellant, who arrived alone at the scene of...

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