Case ID: pa-super_258/html/0607-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM: SPAETH, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

391 A.2d 686
    Commonwealth v. Johnson, Appellant.
    Submitted March 20, 1978.
    Paul Messing, Assistant Defender, and Benjamin Lerner, Defender, for appellant; Arthur Lee Dixon, Assistant District Attorney, and F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.
   OPINION

PER CURIAM:

Judgment of sentence affirmed.

SPAETH, J.,

dissented. Compare this case (56 bags, no evidence of degree of dilution) with Commonwealth v. Santi ago, 462 Pa. 216, 340 A.2d 440 (1975) (25 packets, 17 bundles, half pound of heroin, and cutting and packaging equipment); Commonwealth v. Hill, 236 Pa.Super. 572, 346 A.2d 314 (1975) (45 half spoon packets of heroin, 11 packets of cocaine, packaging equipment, and large amount of cash); Commonwealth v. Wright, 234 Pa.Super. 83, 339 A.2d 103 (1975) (possession of 25 packets by defendant proved not to be user); Commonwealth v. Brown, 232 Pa.Super. 463, 335 A.2d 782 (1975) (expert testimony that 71 packets were bundled as seller would do).