Commonwealth v. Braxton

WIEAND, Judge:

Jerry Braxton was tried without jury and convicted of robbery. On direct appeal, he contends that the Commonwealth failed to prove that he had been preliminarily arraigned within six hours of arrest and that, therefore, his post arrest confession should have been suppressed. There is no merit in this contention; and, therefore, the judgment of sentence will be affirmed.

The facts have been recited in the opinion of the Honorable Levy Anderson. “Shortly after midnight on April 22, 1979, a ‘grandpop’ squad of four police officers was on duty in the vicinity of 12th and Market…