Commonwealth v. Loch

Opinion by

Van der Voort, J.,

Appeal is taken to this Court from Judgments of Sentence rendered following jury trial on five counts of criminality charged in each of six indictments. As the lower court points out in its opinion, appellant operated a truck depot in close proximity to a railroad yard. In his employ were young heroin addicts, who, under cover of darkness, would steal into the railroad yard and break into the cars, removing contents which would be disposed of by appellant through the means at hand offered by his trucking business. This nefarious yet lucrative scheme came to an end…