Case ID: pa-super_258/html/0590-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      HOFFMAN, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

391 A.2d 677
    Commonwealth v. Byrd, Appellant.
    Submitted September 12, 1977.
    Kenneth Mirsky, Assistant Defender, and Benjamin Lemer, Defender, for appellant; Charles A. Klein, Assistant District Attorney, and F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.
   Judgment of sentence affirmed.

HOFFMAN, J.,

would remand for an evidentiary hearing on counsel’s alleged ineffectiveness pursuant to Commonwealth v. Twiggs, 460 Pa. 105, 331 A.2d 440 (1975). See also, Commonwealth v. Aaron, 255 Pa.Super. 289, 386 A.2d 1006 (1978) (Dissenting Opinion by HOFFMAN, J.).

WATKINS, former P. J., did not participate in the consideration or decision of this case.