Commonwealth v. Rende

JOHNSON, Judge:

Appellant takes this appeal from the orders of June 17, 1983 denying his pre-trial Motion to Dismiss Indictment [sic]' and pretrial Motion to Bar Imposition of the Death Penalty. We now affirm the order denying the Motion to Dismiss and quash the appeal from the denial of the Motion to Bar Imposition of the Death Penalty.

Appellant was charged on June 10, 1981 with criminal homicide in the death of Norman McGregor. The Commonwealth contends that Thomas Skelton had offered a “contract” to kill McGregor and that appellant and at least six others were accomplices involved in…