Commonwealth v. Carr

JOHNSON, Judge:

Albert Carr was tried on various criminal charges in the Municipal Court of Philadelphia but was found guilty only of possessing an unlicensed firearm in violation of a particular section of the Uniform Firearms Act set forth at 18 Pa.C.S. § 6106(a).1 After a fine and sentence of probation had been imposed, Carr filed a petition for certiorari in the Court of Common Pleas. This petition was denied, and an appeal was taken to this Court in which Carr contends (1) that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the conviction *461and (2) that the firearm should have been suppressed as…