Commonwealth v. Mines

OPINION OF THE COURT

NIX, Justice.

This is a Commonwealth appeal, by allowance, from the Order of the Superior Court, 282 Pa.Super. 157, 422 A.2d 876, which reversed the judgments of sentence entered by the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia and discharged appellee, Aaron Mines, because of an asserted Rule 1100 violation. Pa.R.Crim.P. 1100.

Appellee was tried and convicted of robbery and conspiracy arising out of an armed hold-up of a number of persons engaged in a dice game outside of a Philadelphia grocery *43store on September 26, 1977. On September 27, 1977 the criminal complaint was filed…