Commonwealth v. Tapper

CIRILLO, President Judge Emeritus:

Jason Tapper appeals from a judgment of sentence entered in the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County. We affirm.

Tapper was arrested for animal fighting, cruelty to animals, conspiracy, and related summary offenses. A jury trial commenced, and the following evidence was adduced. On July 3, 1994, Tapper, along with his friends/co-defendants Jan Pyatt and Roy Elliot, attended a barbecue party at the home of Mary Callahan in Warminster, Bucks County. Mary Callahan and her husband Pat, owners of a 6/6 year old dalmatian named Duke, were selling their home and…