Case ID: pa-super_218/html/0724-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam :", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Commonwealth v. Miller, Appellant.
    Argued November 9, 1970.
    
      Simon B. John, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant;
    
      Daniel G. Reilly, Assistant District Attorney, with him Joseph F. Kovach, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.
   Opinion

Per Curiam :

The record is remanded to the court below with directions to hold an evidentiary hearing on the circumstances of appellant’s failure to file post-trial motions. If the court below shall find that appellant did knowingly and intelligently waive his right to file post-trial motions, it shall enter an order to that effect. If the court should find that he did not understandingly and intelligently waive his right to file post-trial motions, it shall permit appellant to file such motions nunc pro tunc. If such motions are denied, it shall permit appellant to file an appeal nunc pro tunc from the judgment of sentence. Commonwealth v. Grillo, 208 Pa. Superior Ct. 444, 222 A. 2d 427 (1966).

Wright, P. J., dissents.