Commonwealth v. Rivers

OPINION OF THE COURT

CAPPY, Justice.

On March 15, 1989 a jury convicted appellant of murder in the first degree, robbery and possession of an instrument of crime. 1 The following day the same jury found sufficient evidence to establish two aggravating circumstances and no evidence of any mitigating circumstances. The penalty was fixed by the jury at death. This is a direct appeal from the judgment of the sentence of death.

As appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence upon which her conviction of murder in the first degree is founded, we will begin our review with that issue. 2 In…