COMMONWEALTH v. PINCKNEY


194 Pa.Super. 371 (1961)

Commonwealth v. Pinckney, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

March 22, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Benjamin Johnson, Jr., for appellant.

William H. Wolf, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, with him Thomas M. Reed and Arlen Specter, Assistant District Attorneys, Paul M. Chalfin, First Assistant District Attorney, and Victor H. Blanc, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before GUNTHER, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, ERVIN, WATKINS, and MONTGOMERY, JJ. (RHODES, P.J., absent).


OPINION BY ERVIN, J., March 22, 1961:

Appellant, Irin Pinckney, also known as Irvin Pinckney, was indicted, together with one Andrew Grantz, and charged with unlawful possession of drugs, in violation of § 4 of the Act of July 11, 1917, P.L. 758, as amended, 35 PS § 854, which provides: "No person shall have in his possession or under his control, or deal in, dispense, sell, deliver, distribute, prescribe, traffic in, or give away, any of said drugs [opium...

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