Commonwealth v. Gooding

OPINION BY

OLSZEWSKI, J.:

¶ 1 Appellant Willie James Gooding appeals from a judgment of sentence for third-degree murder and kidnapping entered on October 24, 2001. For the following reasons, we affirm.

¶ 2 The facts of this case, as stated by the trial judge in his Rule 1925(a) opinion, are as follows:

This matter arose out of the death of Arthur Irick on November 8, 1996. It was the Commonwealth’s theory that [appellant] and three co-defendants, Charles Malloy, Antoine Brown and Cory Riera had conspired to kidnap and kill Mr. Irick. It was alleged by the Commonwealth that ... there was an…