Commonwealth v. Ritter

VAN der VOORT, Judge:

Appeal is taken from judgment of sentence rendered following non-jury trial and adjudication of guilty of the summary offenses of retail theft and criminal trespass. 1 Factually, the testimony established that appellant had entered a department store and had removed a radio without paying for it. Store officials had observed appellant’s furtive action via closed-circuit television, but had been unable to intercept him prior to his escape. He was known to them, however, because a number of days prior to the instant occasion appellant had been apprehended inside the store…