Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Shaffer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided June 17, 1982No. 80-1-48PublishedCited by 168 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
FLAHERTY, Justice.
Daniel Lee Shaffer appeals from denial of a petition to withdraw pleas of guilty to murder of the third degree, carrying a firearm without a license and committing a crime with a firearm, Crimes Code, Act of Dec. 6, 1972, P.L. 1482, No. 334, § 1, eff. June 6, 1973, 18 P.S. §§ 2502(c), 6106 and 6103 respectively. Appellant is serving a sentence of ten to twenty years for murder of the third degree, and two-and-a-*344half to five years on each of the firearms violations, each sentence to run consecutively.
In January, 1975, appellant was indicted by grand jury…
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