to a church located about an eighth of a mile from the doctors' office and then to a pharmacy located about one hundred yards from the doctors' office. Failing to locate anyone in the front of the building housing the pharmacy, he drove to the back and there discovered appellant. Sergeant McLaughlin approached appellant, questioned him, and took him back to the police station, where he was identified by Patrolman Diday.
By filing post-verdict motions, appellant took the initial steps necessary to preserve the issues of the sufficiency of the evidence and compliance with Pa.R.Crim.P. 141(d) for appellate review. As our supreme court mandated in Commonwealth v. Gravely, 486 Pa. 194, 404 A.2d 1296 (1979), only issues presented in this manner will be preserved. Clearly, however, the court init into evidence indirectly was condemnable as well.
The instant case is distinguishable from Commonwealth v. Farris, supra, however, because we find that this testimony, when taken in context, does not lead to any inescapable conclusions as to the substance of the bystander's conversation with Sergeant McLaughlin. Appellant contends that the bystander must have told the Sergeant that the man running from the building went to the pharmacy, where the officer later apprehended him. The sergeant testified, however, that after speaking to the bystander, he first drove to St. Margaret Mary's Church, about an eighth to a quarter of a mile distant, and that he then drove to the pharmacy behind which appellant was apprehended. Furthermore, the sergeant did not testify that the action he took, going to the