Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Noga

Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Lehigh County

Decided May 25, 1978No. 865Published

1Opinion of the Court

WIEAND, J.,

Peter Noga was tried by jury and found guilty of unlawful possession of Eskatrol, a controlled substance, and of obtaining the substance by fraud. Motions in arrest of judgment and for new trial were filed and argued before the court en banc. They are now ready for decision.

It is well settled that the test of the sufficiency of the evidence is whether, accepting as true all the evidence, together with all reasonable inferences therefrom, upon which a jury could properly have based its verdict, such evidence and inferences are sufficient in law to prove guilt beyond a reasonable…

2Cases cited29 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. KoczwaraSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1959
  2. Commonwealth v. McNealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1974
  3. Commonwealth v. RaymondSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1963
  4. Commonwealth v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1978
  5. United States v. August Edward Schartner, Jr.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1970

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