Commonwealth v. Shore

OPINION OF THE COURT

FLAHERTY, Justice.

On January 21, 1974 in the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, the appellant, Sanford L. Shore, was convicted of murder in the second, degree. Judgment of sentence was set at ten to twenty years imprisonment. No post-trial motions were filed. On June 6,1978, a petition to allow post-trial motions nunc pro tunc was filed. After a hearing held pursuant to the Post Conviction Hearing Act, the petition was denied and this appeal followed.1

Appellant asserts that his trial counsel was ineffective because appellate rights were not…