Commonwealth v. Silvers

WATKINS, Judge:

This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence of the Court of Common Pleas of Beaver County by the appellant, William Silvers, a/k/a Gary DePetro, after conviction by a jury of robbery (second degree) and criminal conspiracy; and from the denial of post-trial motions.

The evidence of the Commonwealth established that on or about 8:20 P.M. on February 22, 1979, the Pic-Way Shoe Store in the Aliquippa Shopping Center was robbed. Two employees testified that two white males entered the store, one of them, the taller, who was identified as Kennedy, was about six feet tall with…