Opinion
Submitted September 12, 1977.
July 12, 1978.
Indictments charging defendant with possession of a prohibited offensive weapon, false imprisonment, robbery, burglary, and making terroristic threats. Before FRANCIOSA, J., without a jury. All charges nolle prossed except offensive weapon charge and defendant found guilty of possession of a prohibited offensive weapon and judgment of sentence entered. Defendant appealed. Appeal, No. 986, Oct. T., 1977, from Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County, Oct. T., 1975, No. 187. Submitted September 12, 1977.
Margaret H. Poswistilo, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant; Richard J. Shiroff, Assistant District Attorney, and John E. Gallagher, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.
Judgment of sentence affirmed.
HOFFMAN, J., dissented for the reasons stated in his dissenting opinion in Commonwealth v. Walton, 252 Pa. Super. 54, 380 A.2d 1278 (1977).
SPAETH, J., dissented for the reasons stated in his dissenting opinion in Commonwealth v. Walton, 252 Pa. Super. 54, 380 A.2d 1278 (1977), and his concurring opinion in Commonwealth v. Adams, 245 Pa. Super. 431, 369 A.2d 479 (1976).
WATKINS, former P.J., did not participate in the consideration or decision of this case.