Commonwealth v. Ruger

WATKINS, President Judge:

This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence of the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County by the defendant-appellant, Terry Ruger, after conviction of retail theft. He was charged with the possession of a prohibited offensive weapon and retail theft. The jury convicted him of the retail theft and found him not guilty of the charge of possession of an offensive weapon.

The appellant and two companions, while returning from a hunting trip, went to the Almart Store in Bethlehem to look at a layaway purchase which had been previously made by one of his companions.…