Commonwealth v. Smith

WIEAND, Judge:

On appeal from an order denying P.C.H.A. relief, Keith 0. Smith asks us to review issues which, on direct appeal to the Supreme Court, were not decided, apparently because the issues had not been preserved for appellate review. Appellant makes this request by asking us to hold that contentions regarding the alleged involuntariness of his confession possessed arguable merit and that prior counsel, therefore, must have been ineffective for failing to preserve them for determination on direct appeal.

Smith had been tried and convicted of robbery, conspiracy and murder of the second…