Commonwealth v. Thomas

CERCONE, Judge:

This is an appeal from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County dismissing appellant’s Post Conviction Hearing Act (PCHA) petition without an evidentiary hearing. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

On August 7, 1980, a jury found appellant guilty of robbery. Post-verdict motions were filed, denied, and appellant was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of seven and *213one-half to fifteen years. On direct appeal appellant’s sole contention was that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the verdict. A panel of this Court found appellant’s sufficiency argument…