Commonwealth v. Mitchell

PRICE, Judge:

Appellant was convicted on September 20, 1972, and judgment of sentence imposed of seven and one-half {7lA) to fifteen (15) years imprisonment. His direct appeal was dismissed as untimely filed.

On November 9, 1973, appellant filed his first petition initiated under the Post Conviction Hearing Act1 requesting permission to file a direct appeal nunc pro tunc. The court below, after finding appellant’s appeal rights had been abridged by the untimely direct appeal, on February 20, 1974, granted the petition, and again a direct appeal was filed. We affirmed appellant’s judgment of…