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COMMONWEALTH v. SMITH

442 Pa. 265 (1971)

Commonwealth v. Smith, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 18, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis M. Richards, Jr., and Pepper, Hamilton & Sheetz, for appellant.

Norris E. Gelman, Assistant District Attorney, James D. Crawford, Deputy District Attorney, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS and POMEROY, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE POMEROY, March 18, 1971:

After a nonjury trial in 1964 appellant was found guilty of aggravated robbery, and received the maximum sentence of not less than ten nor more than twenty years at the State Correctional Institution. In 1967 appellant filed a petition under the Post Conviction Hearing Act (Act of January 25, 1966, P.L. (1965) 1580, 19 P.S. 1180-1 et seq.), asserting, inter alia, the denial of his right to appeal. Following...

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