Commonwealth v. Cruse

Opinion by

Cercone, J.,

This is a direct appeal from appellant’s conviction, in a non-jury trial, of unlawfully carrying a firearm without a license.

The .facts which gave rise to appellant’s arrest can be briefly stated as follows. On January 27, 1972, at approximately 10:30 P.M. Sgt. Bayer, of the Philadelphia Police Department, received a radio call directing him to proceed to 35th and Powelton Avenue where he would find *87a white Dodge bearing license number 39210Z which would be occupied by two Negro males and a Puerto Rican female. The radio message indicated that the occupants of the car…