# Commonwealth v. Drummond

> Superior Court of Pennsylvania · April 25, 2001 · 2001 Pa. Super. 122

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9532971

## Case

- **Full name:** COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee v. David DRUMMOND, Appellant
- **Court:** Superior Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** April 25, 2001
- **Citations:** 2001 Pa. Super. 122; 775 A.2d 849; 2001 Pa. Super. LEXIS 482
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by Sole
- **Judges:** McEwen, Sole, Kelly, Popovich, Johnson, Joyce, Musmanno, Melvin, Lally-Green
- **Cited by:** 70 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

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- finding sufficient evidence to demonstrate intent to deliver drugs where $75 and two packets of cocaine were seized from defendant’s person, three bags of cocaine, $205 in cash, and 30 smaller bags were seized from area where defendant had been sitting, each of these bags was …
- stating that appellate courts must evaluate each section of a statute because there is a pre *821 sumption that the legislature intended for the entire statute to be operative
- stating that appellate courts must evaluate each section of a statute because there is a presumption that the legislature intended for the entire statute to be operative

## Opinion text

DEL SOLE, J.,
concurring and dissenting:
¶ 1 I join the majority except in its application of 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 6317 for the reasons expressed in my dissenting statement in Commonwealth v. Hinds, 2001 PA Super 121 , 2001 WL 418933 , No. 1518 MDA 1999 (en banc) (Del Sole, J. dissenting).

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