Commonwealth v. Ovalles

OPINION BY STEVENS, P.J.E.:

This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence of life imprisonment entered in the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County by the Honorable Thomas J. Burke on August 13, 2015, following a bench trial and Appellant's conviction of first-degree murder. Upon our review of the record, we affirm.

The trial court aptly set forth the relevant facts and procedural history herein as follows:

*961 On July 7, 2013 at approximately 1:20 a.m., Wilkes-Barre City Police officers were dispatched to the area of 174 South Grant Street, Wilkes-Barre, for a fight in progress with gunshots…