Commonwealth v. Lafferty

WATKINS, Judge:

This case comes to us on an appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas, Criminal Division, of Philadelphia County which denied appellant’s Motion to Dismiss on Grounds of Double Jeopardy.

On March 6, 1978, the appellant was convicted by a jury of perjuring himself during a trial on an eminent domain matter. The lower court granted appellant’s motion for a new trial based on prosecutorial misconduct. A motion in arrest of judgment was denied, and the denial was affirmed by this Court on March 21, 1980. See Commonwealth v. Lafferty, 276 Pa.Superior Ct. 400, 419 A.2d 518…