Commonwealth v. Fisher

OPINION OF THE COURT

EAGEN, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Charles Fisher (Fisher), was convicted by a jury in Berks County for possession of a prohibited offensive *11weapon.1 Post trial motions were denied, and the court imposed a prison sentence of one to three years to run consecutively with sentences he had received for other unrelated offenses. Fisher then, with new counsel, appealed to the Superior Court which affirmed the judgment of sentence.2 We granted Fisher’s petition for allowance of appeal.

The trial record establishes the following:

Two police officers patrolling downtown Reading in…