Commonwealth v. Owens

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROBERTS, Justice.

This is a direct appeal from judgments of sentence imposed by the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia upon three citations of criminal contempt entered against appellant during trial. 1 The court cited and sentenced appellant summarily as each of the contempts occurred. A sentence of six months’ imprisonment was imposed upon each of the citations, and the sentences were ordered to run consecutively-

Appellant challenges both the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the contempt convictions and the legality of the court’s summary procedure. We reject…