COM. v. CHAPMAN


255 Pa.Super. 265 (1978)

386 A.2d 994

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. John Louis CHAPMAN, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided April 13, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George M. Schroeck, Jr., Erie, for appellant.

Bernard L. Siegel, First Assistant District Attorney, Erie, for Commonwealth, appellee.

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


SPAETH, Judge:

Shortly after midnight on September 16, 1973, a young woman was walking from her home to an all-night restaurant in Erie, Pennsylvania. As she approached an overhead railroad bridge she noticed a black male pass her from the opposite direction, dressed in blue jeans and a dark T-shirt. Within a minute after passing under the bridge she heard behind her the sound of running. A man seized her by the...

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