Commonwealth v. Waller

JOHNSON, Judge:

In this appeal, we are asked to determine whether the trial court abused its discretion in dismissing the charges against Daniel Mahlon Waller following a denial of the Commonwealth’s request for a one-day continuance to produce a necessary witness. However, because we find that the order in question is interlocutory, we are constrained to quash this appeal.

In October 1993, a confidential informant agreed to cooperate with police and make a number of undercover drug purchases. The police recorded the informant’s activities through the use of a video camera hidden in his…