Commonwealth v. Scarborough

OPINION

EAGEN, Chief Justice.

Following a non-jury trial, appellant, Alan L. Scarborough, was found guilty of murder of the third degree. Post-verdict motions were denied, and Scarborough was sentenced to six to eighteen years of imprisonment. This appeal followed.

In his first assignment of error, Scarborough contends that the Commonwealth’s evidence was insufficient, as a matter of law, to prove his sanity beyond a reasonable doubt 1 and that the guilty verdict was based on conjecture and surmise. In making those claims, Scarborough relies on the fact that the Commonwealth’s psychiatric expert…