Commonwealth v. Pearson

Opinion by

Hoffman, J.,

This appeal is from a denial of a petition for post-conviction relief without an evidentiary hearing.

On M!ay 7, 1965, the appellant Oscar Pearson was convicted on eleven bills of indictment each charging him with aggravated robbery. Although sentence was suspended on three of the bills, appellant received consecutive sentences of five to ten years on the remaining eight bills. Appellant appealed to this Court and we affirmed the judgments of sentence. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania granted allocatur and subsequently reversed the judgments and ordered a new trial.…