Dorantes v. Commonwealth

In a single jury trial, the defendant, Orlando M. Dorantes, was convicted of two offenses of robbery, one offense of conspiracy to commit robbery, and one offense of entering a banking house while armed with a deadly weapon with intent to commit larceny. Pursuant to the verdicts, the defendant was sentenced to serve 20 years in the penitentiary on each of the robbery convictions, 4 years on the conspiracy conviction, and 25 years on the weapons conviction. The issues on appeal involve (1) the admissibility of evidence of other offenses, and (2) the sufficiency of the evidence to support the…