Commonwealth v. Travaglia

OPINION

ZAPPALA, Justice.

We are called upon to review convictions of first degree murder, for which the Appellants were sentenced to death. *481Pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. § 9711(h), we examine the record for errors at trial, and to determine whether the sentence of death should be affirmed or vacated.

I. BACKGROUND

In the early morning hours of January 3, 1980, Apollo Police Officer Leonard Miller was killed by two bullets from a .38 caliber hand gun, after having stopped a silver-colored Lancia sports car, containing three men, which had several times sped past his position at the Apollo Stop-and-Go…