Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Holzer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided July 27, 1978No. 564 & 25PublishedCited by 190 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*98OPINION OF THE COURT
LARSEN, Justice.
Appellant, Edward Holzer, was convicted in a jury trial of first degree murder, robbery and conspiracy and sentenced to life imprisonment. He is now appealing the judgments of sentence.
While appellant does not raise the issue of sufficiency of the evidence to convict, the Supreme Court has an independent obligation to determine if the evidence is sufficient to support a verdict of murder in the first degree. Act of February 15,1870, P.L. 15 § 2,19 P.S. § 1187 (1964). The test to be applied in reviewing the conviction of first degree murder is whether,…
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