Commonwealth v. Hawkins

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Barbieri,

In 1966 appellant was convicted by a jury of murder in the second degree and sentenced by the court to a term of 10 to 20 years in prison. Two years later appellant filed a petition under the Post Conviction Hearing Act (PCHA) which was dismissed following a hearing on May 23, 1968. Because the notes of testimony of this hearing were unavailable on appellant’s first appeal to this Court in 1968, we remanded the case to the court below for a rehearing on appellant’s PCHA petition. Again the lower court refused relief by order on September 10, 1970. This appeal…