OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, March 16, 1973:
Appellant, James William Jones, Jr., in a Philadelphia jury trial, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. His trial counsel filed post-trial motions, but later in open court, appellant, himself, requested that the post-trial motions be withdrawn. The court then imposed a sentence of six to twelve years imprisonment.
Subsequently appellant instituted a pro se appeal from the judgment of sentence and new counsel...
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