Court Opinion

ID: 9712883
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 05:02:06.8719+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:15.045403
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*96PRICE, Judge,
concurring and dissenting:
I concur in the majority affirmance of the judgments of sentence imposed on aggravated assault, possession of an instrument of crime, unlawfully carrying a firearm on a public street, and unlawfully carrying a firearm without a license. I dissent solely to the reversal of the conviction for possession of a prohibited offensive weapon. I would affirm as to all the judgments of sentence.
I concede that Commonwealth v. Fisher, 485 Pa. 8, 400 A.2d 1284 (1979), casts some doubt upon the validity of my dissenting position. I prefer, however, to rely on that holding only for the proposition that a hunting implement, to-wit, a Wyoming knife, which has a common lawful purpose is not within the scope of the prohibition of Section 908 of the Crimes Code.
Further, the Commonwealth argues, and I agree, that appellant waived his argument on the conviction for possession of a prohibited offensive weapon when he failed to pursue the question upon the assurance of the trial judge that the sentence would be suspended on that charge; a promise which, in fact, was carried out.