McEWEN, Judge:
The appeal here undertaken by trial counsel presents an issue quite collateral to the substantive appeal that has been separately undertaken by the Commonwealth at appeal No. 2032 of 1983. We must quash this appeal but so succinct an order will not suffice for we are instead compelled to an expression of concern to the profession.
The goal of the Post Conviction Hearing Act is to afford relief to a convict whom the system may have failed. The...
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