Commonwealth v. Holmes

OPINION

NIX, Justice.

On April 19, 1975, at approximately 11:00 p. m. Howard Wilcox, Richard A. Mitchell and Kenneth Latimer drove to Haverhill Street near Singer Place in the Borough of Wilkinsburg for the purpose of purchasing cocaine. Mitchell and Wilcox had made arrangements through an intermediary, Thomas Banks, to purchase the drugs from a seller who was later identified as being Edward Lewis Holmes, Jr., appellant, who arrived alone at the scene of the intended transfer in a white Thunderbird automobile.

Wilcox and Holmes were in or near the Thunderbird automobile for several minutes and…