Commonwealth v. Schulhoff

Opinion by

Montgomery, J.,

The appellant, William K. Schulhoff, was tried before a jury and convicted on June 30, 1969, of the crime of possession of marijuana and hashish, and on this appeal he has raised, inter alia, the question of the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain his conviction.

The evidence presented by the Commonwealth' was entirely circumstantial. The drugs were found on the early morning of January 18, 1969, by the Pennsylvania State Police in a couch situated in the living room of a second floor apartment in Lancaster. The apartment was rented by appellant and Bernard G. Beck,…