Com. v. Watts

Full title: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. Henry WATTS, Appellee

Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Date published: Apr 3, 1985

489 A.2d 747 (Pa. 1985)

489 A.2d 747

Opinion

Argued December 7, 1984.

Decided April 3, 1985.

Appeal No. 22 E.D. Appeal Dkt. 1984 from the Order of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania Dated September 23, 1983, at 519 Philadelphia 1982, vacating the Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County Dated January 15, 1982, Criminal Information No. 768/1981; Justin M. Johnson, Judge.

Michael J. Kane, Dist. Atty., Stephen B. Harris, Doylestown, for appellant.

Robert J. Kupits, Doylestown, for appellee.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, HUTCHINSON, ZAPPALA and PAPADAKOS, JJ.

ORDER

PER CURIAM.

The Order of the Superior Court 319 Pa. Super. 179, 465 A.2d 1288, is affirmed.

LARSEN, J., files a dissenting opinion.

LARSEN, Justice, dissenting.

I dissent based upon my dissenting opinion in Commonwealth v. Starr, 486 Pa. 530, 406 A.2d 1017 (1979), and would therefore reverse the order of the Superior Court.