Commonwealth v. Sliva

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Delaware County and from the order of the said court refusing motions in arrest of judgment and for a new trial.

Henry Sliva, the defendant-appellant, was tried on eight bills of indictment charging burglary and robbery of private residences in Delaware County. At the conclusion of the Commonwealth’s case, the district attorney suggested that he was unable to connect the defendant with the crimes charged in six of the indictments because of failure of identification and the court below…