Commonwealth v. Branch

WATKINS, Judge:

This is a Commonwealth appeal from the grant of a motion to dismiss pursuant to Pa.R.Crim.Pro. 1100(f) by the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. On appeal, the Commonwealth contends the trial court erred in granting appel-lee’s pre-trial application to dismiss because of the Commonwealth’s failure to bring him to trial within 180 days of the complaint’s filing.

The complaint was filed and an arrest warrant was issued on May 12, 1980. The run date, therefore, was November 10, 1980. Appellee was not apprehended on the present charges of recklessly endangering another person and…