Opinion
December 3, 1973.
June 24, 1975.
Commonwealth v. Santiago, 462 Pa. 228 (1975) cited.
Before WRIGHT, P.J., WATKINS, JACOBS, HOFFMAN, CERCONE, and SPAETH, JJ. (SPAULDING, J., absent).
Appeal, No. 54, Oct. T., 1973, from judgment of sentence of Court of Common Pleas, Trial Division, of Philadelphia, Feb. T., 1970, No. 681, in case of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Dewey Carter. Case remanded.
Indictment charging defendant with unlawful possession of narcotic drugs. Before CAIN, JR., J., without a jury.
Finding of guilty and judgment of sentence entered thereon. Defendant appealed.
Lenard H. Sigal, for appellant.
David Richman, Assistant District Attorney, with him James T. Ranney, Assistant District Attorney, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.
Argued December 3, 1973.
This case is remanded to the lower court for reconsideration of appellant's claim that his sentence must be reduced, in light of the Supreme Court's decision in Commonwealth v. Santiago, 462 Pa. 228, 340 A.2d 440 (1975).