Templeman v. Commonwealth

WINTERSHEIMER, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment based on a jury verdict which convicted Templeman of murder and first-degree robbery. He was sentenced to life without parole for twenty-five years for the murder and ten years for the robbery.

The questions presented are whether the prior convictions were properly admitted; whether objections to the prosecutor’s questioning were properly preserved and whether comments about the victim were reversible error.

In 1988 Templeman was convicted of a 1980 robbery of a liquor store and the murder of one of its patrons. At the sentencing phase of…