Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Burns
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided September 11, 1969No. Appeal, 131PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Watkins, J.,
This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence of the Court of Common Pleas, Criminal Division, by the defendant-appellant, David Burns, after his conviction of burglary, larceny, conspiracy to commit burglary and larceny, and illegal possession of burglary tools and carrying a concealed deadly weapon; and from the denial by the court below of his post-conviction motions.
The Gwyn Dale Diner was broken into and burglarized by three men at approximately 2 a.m. on May 5, 1967. ' The police became awax*e of the burglary by virtue of an alarm so that they arrived while the…
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