Commonwealth v. Green

OPINION OF THE COURT

EAGEN, Chief Justice.

On March 18, 1975, Marcell Green and Harvey Leedy were convicted of raping Trudy Jo Groff by a jury in Lebanon County.1 Post-verdict motions were denied by the Lebanon County Court of Common Pleas, en banc, on September 21, 1976. Sentences were imposed on October 18, 1976. On appeal, the Superior Court affirmed without opinion. We granted the petitions of Green and Leedy for allocatur. The record discloses the following:

At trial, Groff testified that, at 1:30 a. m. on November 21, 1974, she was forcibly removed from the automobile of *325Candace Troutman,…