Commonwealth v. Contakos

OPINION

O’BRIEN, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Samuel C. Contakos, was convicted by a jury of murder of the first degree and criminal conspiracy. Post-verdict motions were denied and appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder conviction and a consecutive prison term of five-to-ten years for the conspiracy conviction. This direct appeal followed. We vacate judg*468ment of sentence and remand the case to the trial court for proceedings consistent with this Opinion.

The facts are as follows. The principal Commonwealth witness at. trial was Thomas Harry Colvin, who had previously pled…