Commonwealth v. Roach

CERCONE, President Judge:

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin County denying appellant’s Post Conviction Hearing Act (hereinafter PCHA) petition.

On December 8,1978 appellant entered a plea of guilty to the felony charge of escape. On December 20, 1978 the court sentenced appellant to the payment of costs, a fine and imprisonment in a state correctional institution for one and a half to three and a half years. The court then suspended the sentence and placed appellant on “probation” for three and a half years. The terms of his probation included…