Commonwealth v. Dorman

LIPEZ, Judge:

We here determine sua sponte that the appeal was untimely, and must be quashed. 1 Appellant was convicted by a jury of receiving stolen property, 18 Pa.C.S. § 3925. Post-verdict motions were filed and denied. On December 1, 1978, appellant was sentenced to serve one to four years in prison and pay a fine of three hundred dollars ($300). At the time of sentencing the trial judge informed appellant that he had thirty days from that date to appeal, and the judgment of sentence was entered on the lower court’s docket on that same day, 2 making the order appealable. Pa.R.A.P. 301(a).

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