Commonwealth v. Perillo

*65OPINION

EAGEN, Chief Justice.

Salvatore Perillo was convicted by a jury in Philadelphia of murder of the first degree. Post-verdict motions were denied and judgment of sentence of life imprisonment was imposed. This appeal followed.

Perillo advances seven assignments of error as grounds for the grant of a new trial.1 Of the seven assignments of error, five involve alleged prosecutorial misconduct at various stages of the proceedings, one involves the trial court’s instructions to the jury concerning proof beyond a reasonable doubt, and one involves the manner in which the Commonwealth proved…