Commonwealth v. Johnson

This appeal arises from appellant’s conviction of lotteries, gambling devices, criminal solicitation and criminal conspiracy, and his subsequent aggregate sentence of seven and *188one-half (7V2) to fifteen (15) years imprisonment and $15,-000. 00.fine.

Appellant couches all of his basic claims in ineffectiveness of counsel allegations, thereby rendering inapplicable the doctrine of waiver.1 As a result of our disposition of appellant’s first assignment of error, however, we will not reach his other claims.

Appellant alleges that he was denied effective assistance of counsel in that trial counsel…