Commonwealth v. Brown

WICKERSHAM, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order denying appellant Brown’s petition filed under the Post Conviction Hearing Act1 (hereinafter PCHA). We affirm. The pertinent facts are as follows.

On July 14, 1969, two Philadelphia police officers observed Brown leaving the scene of a burglary with a box containing several items, including a television set. When the officers asked Brown to stop, he dropped the box and *258ran. Brown was stopped and arrested; he subsequently confessed to committing the burglary. A motion to suppress evidence was filed on September 18, 1969 and denied on October 16,…