Commonwealth v. Fields

OPINION OF THE COURT

EAGEN, Justice.

In a nonjury trial, Melvin Fields was convicted of murder in the second degree and conspiracy. Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were denied, and a prison sentence was imposed on the murder conviction. 1 This appeal was then filed.

The only issue posed by the appeal is whether or not the evidence at trial was sufficient to sustain the murder conviction. We conclude it was not.

As we have said many times previously, “ ‘[T]he test of the sufficiency of the evidence ... is whether, accepting as true all the evidence and all reasonable inferences…