Commonwealth v. Barnes

BECK, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order granting the Commonwealth’s motion to dismiss a PCHA petition. Appellant was convicted of conspiracy and second degree murder by a jury in 1975. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder conviction and a concurrent 5 to 10 year term for the conspiracy conviction. Judgment of sentence was affirmed. Commw. v. Barnes, 273 Pa.Super. 295, 417 A.2d 656 (1979). Appellant filed a pro se PCHA petition in 1983. Counsel was appointed who then filed an amended petition in the same year. The Commonwealth filed a motion to dismiss. A hearing on the…