Commonwealth v. Guest

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROBERTS, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from judgments of sentence imposed by the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia on verdicts of guilty of voluntary manslaughter and possession of an instrument of crime. Because the record fails to establish appellant’s entitlement to relief, we affirm.

The charges against appellant, which included murder of the third degree, stemmed from the stabbing death of George Castlebury on November 9, 1978. The Commonwealth’s evidence established that on that evening appellant’s girlfriend, Joyce Jamison, left the apartment which she shared…