Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Tarver
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided February 4, 1981No. 52PublishedCited by 142 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*323OPINION
NIX, Justice.
In this appeal we are presented with a collateral attack upon a judgment of sentence entered April 2, 1971 by the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County requiring appellant to serve a term of imprisonment of not less than 10 nor more than 20 years for the crime of aggravated robbery. At the time of the imposition of this sentence, the court directed that it be computed consecutively with a life sentence that had been previously imposed under a murder indictment arising from the same criminal episode. We find that the imposition of this second punishment for the charge of…
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