Case ID: pa-super_221/html/0732-04.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

March 24, 1972
    Commonwealth v. Thompson, Appellant.
    
      Argued December 7, 1971.
    
      Rodney D. Henry, Public Defender, for appellant; J. Cordes, Assistant District Attorney, with him Stephen B. Harris, Assistant District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.
   Opinion

Per Curiam:

This defendant was sentenced under the Gun Possession Law of July 30, 1968, P. L. , No. 227, §1, 18 P.S. §4416 (b), without having previously been charged, arraigned, or indicted therefor, which is contrary to the law as recently held in Commonwealth v. Hermankevich, 118 P.L.J. 24 (1909), affirmed per curiam, 217 Pa. Superior Ct. 731, 266 A. 2d 509 (1970).

Therefore, the judgment of sentence for violation of the Act of July 30, 1968, P. L. , No. 227, §1, is vacated and in all other respects the judgment of sentence is affirmed.