Commonwealth v. Haywood

Opinion

Per Curiam,

Petitioner, while represented by counsel, pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated robbery, carrying a concealed deadly weapon and assault with intent to hill. He was diily convicted and sentenced. The present petition for allocatur stems from the affirmance by .the-Superior Court, without opinion, of the dismissal of Haywood’s second petition under the Post Conviction Hearing Act, Act of January 25, 1966, P. L. (1965) 1580, 19 P.S. §1180 .et seq. In dismissing the PCHA petition, the hearing court refused to consider, inter alia, Haywood’s allegation that his guilty plea had…