Commonwealth v. Westbrook
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
O’BRIEN, Justice.
Appellant, James Westbrook, was convicted in 1972 in a nonjury trial of aggravated robbery. Post-verdict motions were denied and appellant was sentenced to two and one-half to seven years’ imprisonment. No direct appeal was taken from the judgment of sentence.
In 1974, appellant filed a petition under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act, alleging, inter alia, that he had been *537denied the right to direct appeal. Following four hearings, the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia granted appellant the right to file an appeal nunc pro tunc in the Superior Court and denied…
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