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COM. v. MAGWOOD

503 Pa. 169 (1983)

469 A.2d 115

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Kendall MAGWOOD, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided December 13, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Corbett, Jr., Public Defender, Paulette D. Balogh, Pittsburgh, for appellant.

Robert E. Colville, Dist. Atty., Robert L. Eberhardt, Deputy Dist. Atty., Dara A. DeCourcy, Asst. Dist. Atty., Kemal Alexander Mericli, Pittsburgh, for appellee.

Before ROBERTS, C.J., and NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, HUTCHINSON and ZAPPALA, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT

HUTCHINSON, Justice.

This is an appeal by allowance from Superior Court's order affirming Allegheny County Common Pleas' judgment of sentence against appellant for robbery after a jury found him guilty of that crime. The issue before us is whether appellant's arrest, carried out by a McKees Rocks police officer in the City of Pittsburgh, was proper under 42 Pa.C.S. § 8901,1 authorizing local police to...

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