Commonwealth v. Green

VAN der VOORT, Judge:

Appeal is taken from judgments of sentence rendered following jury trial and verdicts of guilty of robbery, criminal conspiracy, and possession of instrument of crime. 1 Post trial motions were made and denied.

Stated briefly, the facts are that on January 4, 1974, shortly after 9:00 P.M., appellant and a cohort entered a bar in Philadelphia. As the latter, brandishing a shotgun, moved toward the bartender to inform him of the “stickup”, appellant held customers near the street door at bay with an automatic pistol. When one of the customers moved in the direction of that…