Commonwealth v. McCloud

POPOVICH, Judge:

This is an appeal by the Commonwealth from an Order granting a new trial to appellee, Louis McCloud. Appellee was arrested on February 10, 1947, and charged with twenty-four (24) robberies and two (2) auto thefts. Appellee pleaded guilty to two (2) armed robberies and was sentenced to a term of fifteen (15) to thirty-five (35) years imprisonment. Mr. McCloud filed no post-verdict motions and did not take a direct appeal from judgment of sentence. On June 27, 1979, thirty-two (32) years after having been sentenced 1 , Mr. McCloud filed a pro se writ of habeas corpus.…