Court Opinion

ID: 9730740
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 15:22:23.587608+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:08.964095
License: Public Domain

PRICE, Judge,
dissenting:
The knife here in question has a lock which, when released allows the blade to be snapped open by a flick of the wrist. While the officer who testified said that it was not a “switch blade”, he demonstrated the manner in which it could be opened as it supported in the record (N.T. 28, 29). The court below found that this satisfied the definition of Section *110908(a).1 It seems to me that this is the exposing of a knife blade in a fashion covered by the “otherwise” in the definition. I therefore dissent. I would affirm the judgment of sentence.

. Pa.Crimes Code, 18 Pa.C.S.A. Section 908 (1973).