Commonwealth v. Storm

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

These are appeals from the judgments of sentence entered on charges of conspiracy and prison breach in Huntingdon County.

The appellant, Kenneth Storm, an inmate at the Pennsylvania Institution for Defective Delinquents, was convicted by a jury of prison breach and of conspiracy to hold a guard as a hostage, and of conspiracy to escape. He was tried and acquitted on the charge of holding a guard as a hostage.

Storm was one of four inmates of the institution who conspired to escape and, with varying degrees of complicity, committed numerous crimes connected therewith,…