Commonwealth v. Karash

SPAETH, Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment of sentence for burglary entered pursuant to a guilty plea. Appellant was sentenced under the Youthful Offender’s Act to the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill for an indefinite minimum term and a maximum term of five years. He argues that his sentence is invalid because the lower court considered television and newspaper stories that after his guilty plea, he had escaped. Appellant says that the court should not have considered the stories because he had not yet been tried for and convicted of escape. We agree, and therefore vacate the…