Commonwealth v. Bishop

HESTER, Judge:

Grady Bishop appeals from the order entered in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County on December 23, 1992, which denied him relief under the now-superseded Post-Conviction Hearing Act (PCHA). 1 Asserting that the appeal is frivolous, appellate counsel requests permission to withdraw. For the reasons set forth below, we grant counsel’s request and affirm the order denying PCHA relief.

The facts may be summarized as follows. On the evening of January 24, 1977, appellant and Gerald Rawls forcibly entered a Philadelphia apartment and after ransacking it, stole a color…