Commonwealth v. Mitchell

Opinion by

Packel, J.,

The defendant, tried with three others, was alone found guilty of aggravated robbery and conspiracy. He contends, first, that the court below should have suppressed evidence obtained incident to an unlawful arrest and, second, that the evidence was insufficient for either conviction.

The undisputed evidence was that a woman’s pocketbook was taken from her person by an unidentified individual. Shortly thereafter police officers, patrolling 12 blocks away and unaware of the incident, halted an automobile that they observed being driven without lights and in a reckless…