Opinion
May 23, 1977.
Appeal No. 2829 Allocatur Docket from Order of the Superior Court at No. 1811 October Term, 1975, vacating granting the motion in arrest of Judgment, and reinstating verdict and remanding to trial court for sentencing; Francis A. Biunno, Judge.
John W. Packel, Asst. Public Defender, Chief, Appeals Div., Defender Ass'n of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, for petitioner.
F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, Dist. Atty., Philadelphia County, Steven H. Goldblatt, Asst. Dist. Atty., Chief, Appeals Div., Philadelphia, for respondent.
Before EAGEN, C. J., and O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY, NIX, MANDERINO and PACKEL, JJ.
OPINION OF THE COURT
The petition for allocatur is granted. The order of the Superior Court, 245 Pa. Super. 33, 369 A.2d 279, reversing the order granting a motion in arrest of judgment is hereby affirmed; the case is remanded to the trial court, however, for disposition of appellant's motion for new trial. See Commonwealth v. Meadows, 471 Pa. 201, 369 A.2d 1266 (1977).