Commonwealth v. Johnson

WICKERSHAM, Judge:

Following a jury trial before the Honorable George H. Ross of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, *144appellant, Donald Johnson, was convicted of burglary, receiving stolen property and possessing the instruments of crime. Thereafter, Judge Ross sentenced appellant to a term of imprisonment of one and one-half to three years. Appellant then filed a timely motion to reconsider sentence 1 which Judge Ross denied. This appeal was taken from the judgment of sentence.2

At trial, Bernard Hughes, a fifteen year veteran police officer for the City of Pittsburgh, testified that…