Commonwealth v. Mancini

Opinion by

Rhodes, P. J.,

In this appeal defendant, relying upon Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643, 81 S. Ct. 1684, 6 L. Ed. 2d 1081 (June 19, 1961), seeks to set aside Ms burglary conviction and sentence on the ground they were the result of the use of evidence illegally obtained by an unreasonable search and seizure. The appeal comes here on a statement of the case under Rule 37 of the Superior Court in which the following facts are set forth: “From January 1959 to April 1960 the Presidential Apartments in Philadelphia was the site of a series of burglaries in which the tenants’ premises were…