Case ID: pa_437/html/0108-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Me. Chief Justice Bell,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Commonwealth v. Sanger, Appellant.
    Submitted November 10, 1969.
    Before Bell, C. J., Jones, Cohen, Eagen, O’Brien, Roberts and Pomeroy, JJ.
    
      Grover G. Sanger, Sr., appellant, in propria persona.
    
      Henry J. Rutherford, First Assistant District Attorney, and Clarence O. Newcomer, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.
    
      January 30, 1970:
   Opinion by

Me. Chief Justice Bell,

After a plea of guilty, the Court found defendant guilty of murder in the first degree and imposed a sentence of life imprisonment.

Defendant now alleges, inter alia, that his attorneys abandoned him after his guilty plea and the Court’s aforesaid judgment of sentence. Since this appeal was taken by an indigent defendant without the assistance of counsel, the case is remanded to the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County, Criminal Division, for the appointment of counsel, for the purpose of the taking and perfecting and prosecution of an appeal. Commonwealth v. Wilson, 430 Pa. 1, 241 A. 2d 780; Commonwealth ex rel. Light v. Cavell, 422 Pa. 215, 220 A. 2d 883; Douglas v. California, 372 U.S. 353.