Case ID: pa_473/html/0380-01.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

374 A.2d 694
    COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Edwin EWELL, Appellant.
    Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
    Argued March 7, 1977.
    Decided July 8, 1977.
    Edwin Ewell, in pro. per.
    Lester G. Nauhaus, John H. Corbett, Jr., Pittsburgh, for appellant.
    Robert E. Colville, Dist. Atty., Robert L. Eberhardt, Charles W. Johns, Asst. Dist. Attys., Pittsburgh, for appellee.
    Before EAGEN, C. J., and O’BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY, NIX and MANDERINO, JJ.
   OPINION

PER CURIAM:

In this appeal from the judgment of sentence imposed following appellant’s conviction of murder in the third degree, it is maintained appellant’s trial counsel was ineffective and he was thus denied a fair trial.

Since we are unable to ascertain from the trial record the accuracy of the factual allegations upon which the ineffective counsel complaint is based, we will remand the record to the trial court with directions to conduct an evidentiary hearing and to determine the merit of this assignment of error. Cf. Commonwealth v. Dancer, 460 Pa. 95, 331 A.2d 435 (1975).

After the foregoing determination is made, the trial court is directed to file a written report with this Court.

It is so ordered.