Superior Court of Pennsylvania, 1962

Commonwealth v. Johnson

Commonwealth v. Johnson
Superior Court of Pennsylvania · Decided June 12, 1962 · Rhodes, Ervin, Wright, Woodside, Watkins, Montgomery, Flood
198 Pa. Super. 51; 182 A.2d 541; 1962 Pa. Super. LEXIS 642

Commonwealth v. Johnson

Opinion

Opinion

Per Curiam,

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment of sentence of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia County entered on December 14, 1961.

Defendant was tried before a judge, sitting without a jury, and convicted of unlawful possession of certain drugs, to wit, heroin.

*53 The issue is the reasonableness of the search of defendant’s person and the seizure of heroin thereon after arrest without a warrant.

The judgment of sentence is affirmed on the opinion of Judge Nealon of the Forty-fifth Judicial District, specially presiding, as reported in 27 Pa. D. & C. 2d 301, with the following additional citations: Draper v. United States, 358 U. S. 307, 79 S. Ct. 329, 3 L. Ed. 2d 327; Lowry v. United States, 9 Cir., 135 F. 2d 626; Com. v. Bosurgi, 198 Pa. Superior Ct. 47, 182 A. 2d 295; Com. v. Richards, 198 Pa. Superior Ct. 39, 182 A. 2d 291.

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