Commonwealth v. McCaskill

SPAETH, Judge:

This appeal is from an order denying a petition filed under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act, 42 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 9541-9551. Appellant argues that his trial counsel was ineffective in failing to call three alibi witnesses, and that he should therefore be granted a new trial. We have concluded: that counsel reasonably believed that one of the witnesses was dead; that the record is unclear whether the testimony of another of the witnesses would have helped appellant; but that appellant did show that the testimony of the remaining witness would have helped him. Since we can find no…