Commonwealth v. Patrick

Opinion by

Gunther, J.,

This is an appeal from a conviction and sentence under indictments charging forgery and burglary.

The defendant’s first allegation of error is that there was no severance of the four indictments for forgery and the single indictment for burglary, but that all were consolidated in one trial. The only reason advanced as an objection is that the evidence was insufficient to support each charge separately, but that the combined weight convinced the jury. There is no merit to this contention. The consolidation of indictments is within the sound discretion of the trial judge…