Commonwealth v. Evans

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Eoberts,

Appellant is before this Court on a grant of allocatur following the Superior Court’s per curiam affirmance of the dismissal after hearing of appellant’s petition under the Post Conviction Hearing Act. There is only one issue presented for adjudication by this appeal: whether it is ever proper for the trial judge *54to participate in the plea bargaining which so often precedes the entry of a guilty plea. In this case, it is undisputed that such participation did in fact take place. The Commonwealth’s only witness at the hearing below, Mr. Hardin, appellant’s first…