Commonwealth v. Fletcher

OPINION OF THE COURT

CASTILLE, Justice.

In January of 1993, a jury convicted appellant of first-degree murder1 and possessing an instrument of crime2 and imposed a sentence of death.3 This direct appeal followed. *278For the reasons expressed herein, we affirm the judgment of sentence imposed by the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County.

In all cases where the death penalty has been imposed, this Court is required to conduct a review of the sufficiency of the evidence. Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer, 500 Pa. 16, 26, 454 A.2d 937, 942 (1982), cert. denied, 461 U.S. 970, 103 S.Ct. 2444, 77 L.Ed.2d…