Commonwealth v. Graves

OPINION BY BOWES, J.:

Bennie D. Graves appeals the July 10, 2017 order dismissing his PCRA petition as untimely. After thorough review, we affirm.

We provide excerpts of the trial court's recitation of the facts pertinent to our review:

At approximately 11:00 p.m. on February 16, 1979, Yvonne Weston, before leaving her home for work, entrusted the care of her two children, ten-year[-] old [female] and eleven-year[-] old male, to her step-brother, Bennie Graves, the [Appellant], then living as a boarder in her house. [Appellant] spent the evening drinking beer, smoking marijuana and listening to…