Commonwealth v. Diaz

Opinion by

Van der Voort, J.,

Appeal is taken to this Court from denial of appellant’s motion to dismiss indictment and pursuant to certification of the case to us by the lower court and our allowance of this interlocutory appeal.

The facts are that appellant appeared before Judge Thomas Shiomos, sitting in the Philadelphia Municipal Court, on April 18, 1974, for a preliminary hearing upon charges of attempted rape, kidnapping, indecent assault, terroristic threats, and simple assault. 1 He purported to enter a plea of guilty to attempted rape to a bill of indictment by signing his name after…