Commonwealth v. Brown

Opinion by

Jacobs, J.,

This is an appeal by the Commonwealth from the suppression of evidence by the lower court. We reverse.

*160At the suppression hearing, the arresting officer, the only witness called, related to the court the following facts: At approximately 9:00 p.m., on June 28, 1972, the witness and three other detectives were conducting a narcotics surveillance of a certain area of Pittsburgh. At that time, they received information from an informant, who had proved reliable in the past, that the defendant, Earl Brown, had just left the Yets Club and that the informant had observed…