Commonwealth v. Goodman

SPAETH, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order denying appellant’s petition under the Post Conviction Hearing Act.1

On May 27,1970, appellant pleaded guilty to a charge that he had engaged in a prison breach in 1964. He was sentenced to a term of five to ten years. On March 31, 1978, appellant filed a pro se PCHA petition alleging that the *82lower court was without jurisdiction because he had not been tried in “twelve terms of court” and that his counsel had been ineffective.2 On April 4, 1978, the lower court, without appointing counsel, dismissed the petition as “patently frivolous, without…