COMMONWEALTH v. JOHNSON


198 Pa.Super. 51 (1962)

Commonwealth v. Johnson, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

June 12, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward K. Nichols, Jr., with him Norris, Green, Harris & Higginbotham, for appellant.

Arlen Specter, Assistant District Attorney, with him Charles Jay Bogdanoff, Assistant District Attorney, Paul M. Chalfin, First Assistant District Attorney, and James C. Crumlish, Jr., District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before RHODES, P.J., ERVIN, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, WATKINS, MONTGOMERY, and FLOOD, JJ.


OPINION PER CURIAM, June 12, 1962:

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment of sentence of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia County entered on December 14, 1961.

Defendant was tried before a judge, sitting without a jury, and convicted of unlawful possession of certain drugs, to wit, heroin.

The issue is the reasonableness of the search of defendant's person and the seizure of...

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