Commonwealth v. Stantz

JOHNSON, Judge:

Appellant, Thelma Stantz, takes this appeal from the judgment of sentence of life imprisonment, entered February 22, 1985, for the first degree murder of Sara “Tootie” Bartlebaugh. Appellant was found guilty by Judge Joseph F. O’Kicki, sitting without a jury, of causing the death of the fifteen year-old victim, a part-time babysitter and paramour of appellant’s husband, by inflicting multiple blows to the skull with a two-by-four.

Appellant raises the following issues for our review:

1. ) APPELLANT WAS DENIED A FAIR TRIAL AND ADEQUATE REPRESENTATION BY THE TRIAL COURT’S REFUSAL,…