Commonwealth v. Hagood

OPINION OF THE COURT

FLAHERTY, Justice.

We granted the Commonwealth’s petition for allowance of appeal to consider the propriety of Superior Court’s order vacating the PCHA court’s dismissal of appellee’s third PCHA petition without a hearing, and remanding for an evidentiary hearing.

The lengthy procedural history of appellee’s case is as follows. Appellee was convicted of murder of the first degree on April 4, 1973, in connection with the stabbing death of one Walter Yingling, in Harrisburg. His direct appeal which was filed with this Court was quashed because of noncompliance with our rules…