Commonwealth v. Sheppard

OLSZEWSKI, Judge:

This is an appeal from the trial court’s order denying appellant’s petition for relief under the Post Conviction Hearing Act, 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 9541 et seq. For the reasons stated below, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

A statement of the case follows. Appellant was charged and found guilty of first-degree murder and possession of an instrument of a crime. On October 6, 1977, he was sentenced to concurrent terms of life imprisonment for the conviction of first-degree murder with one to five years’ imprisonment for the conviction of possession of an instrument of a…