Commonwealth v. Spriggs

Opinion by

Hoffman, J.,

Appellant contends that evidence seized at the time of his arrest was illegally obtained by the police officers, and should have been suppressed.

On the night in question, police officers in West Chester, while on patrol, observed three individuals, one of whom was known to them to be a juvenile, standing next to a car on which hood were some beer cans. As the police approached, the youths drove away in the car. The officers stopped the youths, and upon being asked for identification, appellant was seen to drop a switchblade knife. He was thereupon asked to empty his…