Commonwealth v. Stackpole

LIPEZ, Judge:

On April 10, 1978 appellant filed a Post Conviction Hearing Act (PCHA) 1 petition alleging denial of his right to a direct appeal from his judgment of sentence of May 28,1964 for trafficking in machine guns. The petition also alleged other errors relating to that conviction. After a hearing, the PCHA court determined that appellant had been denied his right to a direct appeal. The court therefore properly refused to consider the other claims, Commonwealth v. Webster, 466 Pa. 314, 319, 353 A.2d 372, 374 (1975), and entered an order on May 22, 1978, granting appellant the right to…